Perhaps one might think most companies are either: 1) fundamentally sound, in which case buy on the dip, or 2) going to get bought out by a stronger company, in

Perhaps one might think most companies are either: 1) fundamentally sound, in which case buy on the dip, or 2) going to get bought out by a stronger company, in which case buy in before the sale There might be a few companies that fall into neither group, being so fundamentally unsound that they will simply be shuttered with no sale, but that would surely be a small percentage of the stock market.