About
A lifetime in the markets
Charles B. Goodman never published a book. What you can buy here exists because a student kept the notes, traded the method for fifty years, and then wrote it down.
Michael Duane Archer
I made my first trade in commodities in September of 1973. That summer I began studying the markets with Charles B. Goodman.
We were tracking a Double Intersection in Silver when a Molokai setup formed. When the signal came, Charlie leaned over and said, “Let’s go, dad.” I bought two contracts at $2.78. We scaled, re-entered, and rode the structure to nearly $6. That trade did not just make money — it defined everything that followed. Plans for a Ph.D. in Philosophy ended there.
I studied with Goodman until 1984, speaking daily, even across continents, refining structure and understanding. Back in Colorado I built a managed account business. In the early 1990s I stepped away and traveled across Canada with my family. Later I built software companies before returning to trading through FOREX.
I authored multiple books with John Wiley & Sons and lectured on AI and markets internationally. From 2002 onward I mentored traders, and I ran the Goodman Trading Room from 2006 to 2014.
The CODEX captures the full body of that work. The Playbook distills it — one setup, executed correctly.
“If you walk around the block enough times, you will eventually see in everyone’s window.”
Michael Duane Archer
What the market rewards
The market does not reward intelligence.
It rewards clarity.
It rewards patience.
It rewards the ability to see what is actually there.
Mentorship and consulting are offered for a limited period. The work continues, but it transitions to my student and co-author, Mohamed Ahmed, whom I introduce in the Playbook’s own Introduction.
See the Playbook for that introduction in full.
Steamboat Springs, Colorado · 26 February 2026
The trade that started it
Silver, 1973 — a Double Intersection
A Molokai formed where the ending point of a 1-2-3 sat on the Tipping Point of the larger swing behind it. Two structures, one price.
Charlie taught in the moment, at the chart, in short sentences. Nothing in the Library was written from theory first: every plate in every book traces back to a structure somebody sat and watched form.
That is also why the books name their own sources. Where a technique came from Charlie, Archer says so. Where it is his own, he says that too.
Charles B. Goodman
He read markets as a struggle between buyers and sellers that resolves in threes, and he taught it in conversation, in letters, and on whatever paper was to hand. He did not systematize it for publication. Everything in this Library is the record of people who sat with him and then spent decades checking whether it held.
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.