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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

Order FlowExpert

Order Flow Confirmation: Validating SMC Setups

Use footprint charts, delta, and tape reading to confirm an SMC setup before entering, and to spot the ones that won't hold.

5 min read

Order FlowIntermediate

Value Area Trading: POC, VAH and VAL Strategies

How the Point of Control and Value Area define price acceptance and rejection, and where they align with SMC order blocks and…

5 min read

Order FlowIntermediate

Cumulative Delta: Tracking Market Sentiment

Cumulative delta tracks buying versus selling pressure over time, revealing institutional accumulation and distribution before price confirms it.

5 min read

SMC TrainingExpert

ICT Concepts Integration: A Top-Down Trade Sequence

How market structure, liquidity, order blocks, FVGs, and session timing combine into one ICT trading framework.

5 min read

Trading BasicsIntermediate

Your Trading Journey Roadmap

From Beginner to Funded Trader

11 min read

Trading BasicsIntermediate

Self-Funded vs Prop Firms

Self-funded trading vs. prop firms: capital needed, profit splits, risk, and freedom, compared side by side.

10 min read

Trading BasicsIntermediate

Passing Prop Firm Evaluations

How to pass a prop firm evaluation: conservative position sizing, daily loss limits, and a process-over-outcome mindset.

10 min read

Trading BasicsIntermediate

Top 5 Futures Prop Firms 2024-2025

Comprehensive Prop Firm Comparison

10 min read

Trading BasicsIntermediate

Prop Firm Rules Explained

How drawdown limits, daily loss caps, and trading restrictions actually work, and what gets a funded account terminated.

12 min read

Trading BasicsBeginner

What is a Prop Firm?

How prop firm evaluations, funded accounts, profit splits, and drawdown rules actually work, and what it takes to pass.

11 min read