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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

SMC TrainingExpert

Optimal Trade Entry (OTE): Fibonacci Meets SMC

The OTE zone (61.8%-78.6% retracement) combined with an order block or FVG gives some of the highest-probability entries in Smart Money Concepts…

15 min read

SMC TrainingExpert

Combining Time and Price: The Complete SMC Framework

Bring together all SMC concepts into a unified framework. Learn to combine time-based and price-based analysis for high-probability trading.

16 min read

SMC TrainingExpert

Quarterly Theory: Institutional Accumulation Cycles

Institutional trading follows quarterly cycles: accumulation, manipulation, and distribution phases tied to reporting and rebalancing schedules.

15 min read

SMC TrainingIntermediate

Weekly Profiles: Understanding the Trading Week Rhythm

Monday sets direction, Wednesday brings the volatility, and Friday winds down. A day-by-day guide to trading the weekly rhythm.

14 min read

SMC TrainingIntermediate

Asian Session: Range Building and Preparation

The Asian session builds the ranges and liquidity pools that London and New York later trade against, including the midnight open.

12 min read

SMC TrainingExpert

London Killzone: European Session Strategies

How the 2-5 AM ET London killzone sweeps Asian session liquidity and sets the directional bias that often carries into New York.

13 min read

SMC TrainingExpert

New York Killzone: The Most Volatile Trading Session

The New York killzone (7-10 AM ET) is when US markets open and futures see their biggest, most volatile moves of the…

14 min read

SMC TrainingExpert

Trading Killzones: When Smart Money is Most Active

Killzones are the time windows around the Asian, London, and New York opens, when institutional activity peaks and the best setups appear.

15 min read

SMC TrainingExpert

Liquidity Sweeps: Identifying Stop Hunts in Real-Time

A practical guide to spotting liquidity sweeps (stop hunts) in real time and entering trades where smart money is positioning.

14 min read

SMC TrainingExpert

Inducement: How Smart Money Traps Retail Traders

Inducement is how institutions bait retail traders into losing positions before the real move begins. Here's how to spot it.

13 min read