This course contains the use of artificial intelligence. Charles B. Goodman was a farmer’s son from Eads, Colorado who built a complete wave theory of the markets in the 1940s — and taught it almost entirely by pointing at charts and saying things like “Sit on your hands, Dad; sit on your hands!” He died in 1984. His student, Michael Duane Archer, has spent fifty years unpacking what he meant.
This course takes seven of Goodman’s sayings — his “Goodmanisms” — and treats each one as what it actually is: a precise diagnosis of a specific psychological failure that costs traders money. Then it puts each diagnosis to the test against three primary Wall Street texts written between 1853 and 1908, by men who watched these exact failures destroy real fortunes and wrote down what they saw.
What you’ll learn:
Why inhibition — not information — is the only edge you fully control, and where in your decision pipeline to apply it How to stack independent structural evidence (“overlays”) so a decision rests on a countable number rather than how confident you feel Why survival is two-thirds of a trader’s edge, and how a breakeven-first sequence engineers the calm each later step requires How boredom and over-analysis produce the identical bad trade, and the fifteen-second rule that catches both How to tell a manufactured chart pattern from a real one, when both feel exactly like insight
