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Chriss Rakoot

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Chriss Rakoot

I am not a professional money manager, and I have never claimed to be one. I trained as an industrial engineering and maintenance engineer, then took over my father's construction business when he retired — I have been a building contractor since I was 22, and I am 51 now. These days, with four sons at home, I run the company from a desk: studies, quotes, site follow-up. Trading came later. When Covid stalled the business in 2021, I had time and I used it to learn. I joined Benjamin Deleuze's group, then trained with Sébastien Barca at Impact Trading. Two years of ups and downs followed. It only started to make sense in 2023, when I stopped treating Smart Money Concepts and order flow as rival methods and began reading them together: structure tells you where, the tape tells you when. I write this site to put that down in order — the way an engineer writes a procedure, not the way a guru sells a course. Everything here is free. I sell nothing, I run no signal service, and I am not a registered investment adviser.

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Lessons

Trading PsychologyExpert

Trading Psychology: Mastering Your Mind

Why psychology, not strategy, decides trading outcomes: the emotional traps, cognitive biases, and mental routines behind consistent trading.

15 min read

Trading BasicsExpert

Trading Psychology: Mastering the Mental Game

Fear, greed, and ego derail good strategies more often than bad analysis does. Here's the emotional cycle of a trade, and how…

15 min read

Market StrategiesAdvanced

Dark Pools: Hidden Liquidity Venues

Dark pools handle 30-40% of US equity volume with no pre-trade transparency, and futures traders hide size with iceberg orders and block…

5 min read

Market StrategiesIntermediate

Risk of Ruin: Understanding Probability in Trading

Why proper position sizing, not strategy alone, determines whether your account survives a losing streak or gets wiped out.

4 min read

Order FlowExpert

When to Break Rules: Discretionary Trading

Why experienced traders sometimes deviate from their rules, and how to build that judgment without losing discipline.

5 min read

Trading PsychologyIntermediate

Trailing Stops: Protecting Profits Dynamically

Five methods for trailing your stop loss as a trade turns profitable: fixed-point, ATR, structure, moving average, and time-based trails.

5 min read

Market StrategiesAdvanced

Scaling In and Out: Advanced Position Management

How to build positions in stages, add only on confirmation, and scale out with a plan instead of exiting all at once.

5 min read

Market StrategiesIntermediate

Trading YM Futures: Dow Jones Strategies

YM futures behave differently than ES and NQ because the Dow is price-weighted and less volatile, with four strategies built around those…

5 min read

Trading PsychologyExpert

The Trading Mindset: Thinking Like a Professional

Develop the mental framework that separates consistently profitable traders from those who struggle with emotional decisions.

5 min read

Market StrategiesIntermediate

Building a Risk Management Plan: Your Trading Safety Net

Create a comprehensive risk management framework that protects your capital and ensures long-term trading survival.

4 min read