We have beaten the odds before, and we can do it again; experience has taught us that it is not as difficult as it seems, once you buckle down to the task. Patience, persistence, determination and commitment to excellence will win the day.
Well, consider the consequence if stock prices sold off globally, implied volatility jumped, and record trading volumes overwhelmed the trading capacity on the stock exchanges. Consider a spike in a measure of implied U.S. equity-market volatility so large that it would be in the top 1/2 of one percent of one-day changes in nearly a generation.