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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

Internal Liquidity: Fair Value Gaps as Targets

Internal liquidity is the FVGs and imbalances inside a price range that price returns to for rebalancing.

12 min read

SMC TrainingIntermediate

External Liquidity: Trading Beyond the Range

External liquidity sits beyond swing highs and lows - stop-loss pools that act as magnets for price and profit targets for your…

13 min read

SMC TrainingIntermediate

Liquidity Pools: Where Stop Losses Become Fuel

Liquidity pools form at predictable price levels, and institutions use the retail stop losses that trigger there to fill their own trades.

14 min read

SMC TrainingExpert

Imbalance Concepts: Reading Market Inefficiencies

FVGs are only one kind of imbalance. This lesson covers volume gaps, opening gaps, and single prints, and how to trade price…

12 min read

SMC TrainingIntermediate

Fair Value Gaps (FVG): Understanding Price Imbalances

How Fair Value Gaps form, why price often returns to fill them, and how to trade the resulting support and resistance zones.

14 min read

SMC TrainingExpert

Bearish Order Blocks: Finding Institutional Selling Zones

The last bullish candle before institutional selling takes over: how to spot bearish order blocks and trade the zone when price returns.

15 min read

SMC TrainingExpert

Bullish Order Blocks: Finding Institutional Buying Zones

How to spot institutional buying zones on a chart, judge order block quality, and structure long entries with the right stop placement.

15 min read

SMC TrainingBeginner

Order Blocks Explained: Where Institutions Enter

What order blocks are, why institutions leave them behind, and how to identify high-probability zones on your charts.

14 min read

SMC TrainingExpert

Daily Open and Midnight Open: Time-Based Trading Concepts

The Daily Open and Midnight Open are institutional reference levels that reveal daily bias and set up common New York session reversals.

11 min read

SMC TrainingExpert

Swing Points and Market Phases: Reading Price Action

How to identify true swing highs and lows, and which of the four market phases price is in before you place a…

12 min read