There's a difference between a dead cat bounce and a dead cat strategy.
But neither of them seem all that appealing. And right now Giovanni van Bronckhorst is in serious danger of deploying both of them at the same time.
The dead cat bounce is a term used in the investment industry to describe a temporary rise in the price of shares during a prolonged period of decline, all based on the theory that even a dead cat will bounce if it falls from high enough.