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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 TrainingIntermediate

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…

5 min read

SMC TrainingAdvanced

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.

5 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.

5 min read

SMC TrainingAdvanced

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.

4 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.

5 min read

SMC TrainingIntermediate

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.

5 min read

SMC TrainingIntermediate

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…

5 min read

SMC TrainingIntermediate

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.

6 min read

SMC TrainingIntermediate

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.

5 min read

SMC TrainingAdvanced

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.

5 min read