The eternal hope that the Ponzi can be taken down brick by brick, just as it was constructed, but shot don’t work that way.
Confidence (which IS the market) is built one Shakey brick at a time mortared with greed. When confidence is lost it quickly becomes an avalanche, the same greed that mortared it in place now becoming the grease that accelerates the slide.
Climbing that greasy slope anytime soon after typically proves unlikely.