NEW CHALLENGE--SERIOUSLY

Congratulations to Cadet Derek Fitzgerald who correctly described the phenomenon depicted below as the "dead cat bounce."  The term refers to the correction in the price of a stock or a market index after a long decline.  The question is, when prices increase, does it represent a real turn-around, or is it simply the bounce of a cat that's already dead.  Cadet Fitzgerald, being a smart MHS cadet, only had to bounce four or five dead cats before he figured it out. 

There's a free soda in it for any cadet who can 'splain to me the meaning of the following image:

I caution you all that this is a serious question.   This challenge will close out 0730 17 January 2012. 
Good luck.