(That would be an account of how well the rally went).
"But we missed some shots, and then the rally goes out the window."
But in fact, until the final moments, the rally went smoothly, without violence.
The rally will go ahead, but the opposition leaders say they have no agreed plan of action to announce there.
As a result, an early fourth-quarter rally went to waste.
That's a clear sign that investors think the rally is going to continue.
The rally could have gone well, but it went great.
That said, few analysts were willing to predict the current rally would go much further in the near term.
But the rally is going ahead, I point out, and the police have it on their duty-roster.
But the question now is much the same as it was then: how far can this rally go?