How to trade a lagging USD currency pair when the leader breaks out first: the Difference Oscillator, entry rules, pip thresholds and why paper trading comes first.
11 Nov 2024 · 5 min read
Do some USD currency pairs lead others? Part 1 of the Currency Companion study: triangular arbitrage, cross-correlation tables and a EURUSD vs AUDUSD leader/lagger test.
11 Nov 2024 · 7 min read
Two train stories: J. Paul Getty spots oil from a locomotive, and Charlie Goodman sees empty boxcars in the 1976 Maine potato futures squeeze.
10 Nov 2024 · 5 min read
From 1997 to 2005 Michael Archer and Jim Bickford ran over 100 FX studies. Memories of the Currency Companion books, an 85% anomaly and a friend remembered.
10 Nov 2024 · 5 min read
Bullish consensus above 90% or below 20% favors contrary opinion, but Michael Archer found the in-between readings can signal a wise crowd. See the example.
7 Nov 2024 · 3 min read
Why a perfect Point & Figure chart of Japanese cocoon futures kept losing money: settlement-period stop runs in a thin market. A Honolulu trader story.
27 Oct 2024 · 3 min read
Charlie Goodman trusted price, not volume. Michael Archer reviews the classic open interest rules and tests them as an External Overlay on a Molokai setup.
6 Oct 2024 · 7 min read
Michael Archer has followed silver since 1972. He recalls the 1975-1979 frustration, Silver Thursday, and why today's charts look similar to him.
20 Jul 2024 · 4 min read
Why short-term trading of thin, illiquid markets loses, and how Charlie Goodman got a Denver broker to buy fresh egg futures at the market and win.
18 Jul 2024 · 5 min read
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.
