Michael Duane Archer and Mohamed Ahmed
THE GOODMANWave Theory
Markets move in 1-2-3s. Learn to read them the way Charlie Goodman did.
Three ways in
What Goodman Wave Theory is
Propagation, Intersection and the 3-C Principle, drawn plate by plate.
Start here · Free to read
The LibraryTen books, one method
From a 35-page quick start to the 367-page 6 & 6. Delivered as PDF.
From $97
Limited EditionThe Trader’s Playbook
The Molokai setup in one printed, numbered, signed volume. 100 copies.
Printed · $5,000
From the blog
The Goodman FireStarter Technique, Part 1
A short-term trading strategy built on Goodman structure.
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Market WatchWheat Futures: Large Molokai, Weak Sister and a Pinch Down
A chart walk-through of the wheat market across three time frames.
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Risk & PsychologyOliver Twisted: How Overthinking a Soybean Downtrend Cost Real Money
A trader with a sound plan for a soybean downtrend talked himself out of it. Stick to your plan.
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Everything is a 1-2-3
Charlie Goodman read a market as a buyer-seller struggle. The struggle resolves in three swings, and the resolved structure becomes the first swing of a larger one. That is the whole of it, repeated at every scale.
A swing
A move from a Beginning Point to an Ending Point. Its midpoint is the Tipping Point.
A 1-2-3
The second swing stops short of the first swing’s start. The third exceeds its end.
Propagation
The finished 1-2-3 becomes the ‘1’ of a larger one. Its ‘3’ is the swing you trade.
The Goodman Library
Charles B. Goodman spent forty years reading markets as buyer-seller struggles that resolve in 1-2-3s. Michael Duane Archer learned it at his desk. These are the books.
Every online book, in one order
Grasshoppers · Over the Over · 3S · Charlie’s Secret Notebooks 1–3 · CODEX Parts 1 and 2 · The Goodman 6 & 6. Nine titles, delivered as watermarked PDF.
$2,497
Buy the LibraryDelivered as watermarked PDF · ten titles
Foundations
Goodman for Grasshoppers
The first hour with Goodman.
$97
The Simple System Setup
One setup, start to finish.
$197
The CODEX, Part 1
The complete reference, in two parts.
$347
The CODEX, Part 2
The second half of the reference.
$347
PDF · pair $597
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The Goodman 6 & 6
The final frontier: six swings, six parameters.
$597
Where are the two take-profits?
The first swing ran 10 units. The correction gave back 6, so it stopped 1 unit short of the Tipping Point. The measured move puts the third swing 10 above that TP. At what two levels do you take profit, and which comes first?
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The Under sits at 9 (10 − 1) and the Over at 11 (10 + 1) — the same 1 unit the correction missed by, carried to the far end. The Under is taken first, for half the position, with the order reduced by the spread. There is no known way to tell in advance which of the two will be reached.
The Goodman 6 & 6, pp. 100–101 · CODEX Part One, p. 65
Source and technique
Charlie’s Secret Notebooks
Charlie’s own notes, as he wrote them.
$297 each · set $697
PDF · three books
OTO
Over the Over
The one-in-ten trade that pays for the other nine.
$147
Where to start
Grasshoppers first if Goodman is new to you. The CODEX if you want the reference. The 6 & 6 if you already read structure.
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The Trader’s Playbook
The Molokai setup, in one hundred hands.
One printed volume on one setup, written to be followed with a chart open rather than read in an armchair. Find the Jumbo. Watch a 1-2-3 form at its Ending Point. Watch that 1-2-3 become the first swing of a larger one. Take the swing the structure has already earned, and close it by rule.
It refuses to teach you everything, and that is the point. Charlie’s favourite setup, taught to the end: entry, initial stop-loss, initial take-profit, what to do when the trade runs past the Over count, and the thirty-trade account you use to find out whether you can actually execute any of it. The theory sits in the appendices so the chapters stay a procedure.
It comes with the source files referenced in the book and a sixty-minute consultation with the authors — study it first, take notes, then book the call.
Numbered and signed, in an edition of one hundred. No more will be printed, and the number on your title page is the proof.
$5,000
See the Playbook
What it is
170 figures, printed and spiral-bound.
| Edition | 100 numbered copies |
| Format | Printed, numbered, signed |
| Setup | Molokai, a 6 & 6 variant |
Cover art · photograph of the numbered copy to follow
Work with us directly
Trading Goodman
Ten sessions of ninety minutes, one-on-one. A live five-hour Trade-With-Me day. Ninety days of follow-up afterwards, and every written material.
$7,500
Apply for mentoringApplication, not checkout
A single session
Your charts, your positions, your process. One session, reviewed and returned to you as specific next actions.
$1,200 one hour
Request a sessionThree sessions $3,000 · six months $9,500
Goodman Wave Theory Professional
Three levels, examined on bare charts rather than vocabulary. Reader, Trader, Master. Papers in English and Arabic.
$500 Level 1
See the three levelsMonthly sittings · numbered certificates
“Sit on your hands, Dad; sit on your hands!”
Charles B. Goodman
The authors
Michael Duane Archer
Fifty years in the markets, eleven of them working directly under Charlie Goodman. He writes the method as he was taught it, in the first person, with the trades attached.
Mohamed Ahmed
Archer’s student, and co-author of the Playbook. A private full-time trader who came to the markets through risk rather than through charts — an academic grounding in the discipline, and the credentials that go with it: PMI-RMP, GRCP, FRM.
One letter, when there is something to say
Charlie wrote to his students. We do the same: a new plate, a chart worth looking at, a note when a book is finished. No schedule, no sequence, no selling to you every Tuesday. Leave when you like.
We keep the list ourselves. It is never sold, rented or shared.