Three Clients, Three Life Lessons from a Money Manager
Michael Archer recalls three memorable commodity clients, from a chance meeting over the game of Go to a man in a tattered blazer, and their lessons.
17 Jul 2024 · 5 min read
Trader Stories
Is the Market a Computer? The Trend Machine Experiments
Michael Archer recounts The Trend Machine, his 1993-2007 attempt to model markets as a binary cellular automaton, and what he foresaw for computers.
14 Jul 2024 · 4 min read
How Charlie Goodman Taught: Pointing, Examples and Goodmanisms
Charlie Goodman rarely explained. He pointed at charts and spoke in riddles. How Michael Archer decoded 'There's your Return, Dad!' and wrote down Goodman's method.
8 Jun 2024 · 2 min read
The list
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.