The Goodman Library · CSN1
Charlie’s Secret Notebooks — Book 1
Standard Techniques
Charlie’s own notes, as he wrote them.
Twenty-seven techniques that every Goodman trader should have to hand: Bathtub Analysis, Laydowns, Micro-Nests, Station Points, Time Hash. The author’s instruction is to master these before opening Books 2 and 3.
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PDF · Second Revised Edition, 2016
What’s inside
- 1. Bathtub Analysis
- 2. Breakaway Bar
- 3. Cross Point
- 4. Dagger Varietals
- 5. Laydowns
- 6. Micro-Nests
- 7. Parallelograms
- 8. Multiple Counts
- 9. No Man’s Land
- 10. Crossing the Bridge
- 11. Shooting Star and the Outside Bar
- 12. Return Points and Spread Triples
- 13. Boxing Matrices
- 14. Pretzel Charts
- 15. PTS Transitions
- 16. Repropagation and Redrawing
- 17. PTS Stop-Loss Points
- 18. Second Chance
- 19. Station Points
- 20. Swing Matrices — Sticks and Breakaways
- 21. 3:1 Profit Rule
- 22. Lines, Bars and Time Hash
- 23. Tiny Dancer
- 24. Trading and Trending
- 25. Basic Goodman Setup — Stages
- 26. Analysis Paralysis
- 27. News Trading
Who it is for
Goodman traders and students. The book calls itself a review and an opportunity to dig deeper on material already covered in the CODEX and in letters to trading-room members.
What it assumes you know
The full Goodman method — Setups, the PTS, the 3-C Principle, Propagation, Daggers and Overlays — plus Lessons 6 and 8 of the mentoring course.
Where it sits in the ladder
- Read first: The Simple System Setup
- Read next: Charlie’s Secret Notebooks, Book 2
A plate from the book
The Laydown
The expected correction and the expected third swing, drawn in before they happen. The FPS of a Laydown to a Tipping Point runs one third of the distance back and two thirds forward.
From the book
“It’s a Setup because it is set up to work!”
“Remember, the markets can only go up or down; at the end of the day you are analyzing a binary process.”
“Nests are best by test!”
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.