Goodkin founded his first company, Counsel's Aide, while a student at Northwestern Law School. The company provided trial lawyers with student legal research by the hour. The first of its kind in the country, it was a successful and upon graduating he sold the company. and founded Arbitrage Management Company (AMC), an idea he had while listening to a guest lecture from Professor John Shelton of
UCLA (another founder of AMC). Before graduation, he had raised $250,000 from private investors and hired professors and assistants to develop a computer program to trade Shelton's
convertible arbitrage strategy. This is the first known attempt at computerized arbitrage trading. After running a successful
hedge fund to prove the efficacy of computerized trading, he sold the company to a NYSE member firm and resettled in London. A lecturer at forums including the University of Chicago and the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency, Goodkin is the author of the 1981 best-selling novel,
Paper Gold, and in 2012 he published his memoir
The Wrong Answer Faster: The Inside Story of Making the Machine that Trades Trillions. == References ==