I trade full-time, so I don't really have time to do the due diligence on hundreds or thousands of individual stocks, that's partly why I started this thread - to pilfer ideas Also, cheap markets are usually the best places to look for cheap individual stocks. And I'm about as likely to ever acquire a wife as Elvis is to rise from the dead, so don't worry about that
If something is cheap enough you don't need "a bottom" to make money - the yield at purchase is going to be at least 10% so you can sit on it forever and earn 3 times as much as govt bonds, even if the market never rallies a cent. You are thinking like a speculator not an investor.