If your idea of timing the market is similar to
catching a
falling knife and shopping for the appropriate / best sale and you are willing to forego other opportunities until you obtain the right price might be the best alternative trading style for you.
So as a value investor, you're: a) buying a stock you think is cheap, but which could collapse in mere days,
if bad news hits / sentiment turns and finally / suddenly everybody else notices the company's poor financials & bails out indiscriminately, or b) already trying to
catch a
falling knife!?