Michael D. Archer

I have been a full-time participant in the markets for 43 years. I've acted as a private trader through it all, but also as an SEC registered Investment Advisor, a NFA CTA, a branch manager for Heinold (Honolulu) a researcher and a teacher/mentor.

My 'go-to' method of trading has always been Goodman Wave Theory, a trading method taught to me by Charles B. Goodman in the 1970s and early 1980s. The Goodman Method is an holistic, self-contained trading approach built on the core principles of Goodman Wave Theory - Propagation, Nesting and 3-C. It treats the market as a process with the primary component of prices being a 1-2-3. In Goodman, prices 'propagate into larger and larger 1-2-3s. Rather than 1-2-3-4-5, Goodman teaches a 1-2-3 becomes a '1' to a larger 1-2-3. It also uses 'overlays' to narrow down the possibilities until the trader has a candidate which Mr. Goodman called 'a high-percentage sitting duck.'

I've also done work on applying Cellular Automata to markets and have presented papers on that theme to the University of Chicago Symposium on AI, the Chemnitz University Conference on Machine Learning and Automata 2008.

I do not maintain a website at this time, but offer mentoring, videos and literature on Goodman Wave Theory and the Goodman Method of Trading. I may be contacted at michael.d.archer@aol.com

Good Trading!

- Michael Duane Archer