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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

The Power of Three: AMD Model Mastery

The AMD model splits each trading day into accumulation, manipulation, and distribution, then shows how to trade the real move once manipulation…

16 min read

SMC TrainingExpert

The Liquidity Grab Entry: Trading the Sweep Reversal

Liquidity grabs sweep stop clusters right before price reverses. This lesson covers spotting the setup, confirming rejection, and entering the trade.

15 min read

SMC TrainingIntermediate

The Order Block Confirmation Entry: Validated Entries

Confirm an order block before entering: a reversal candle, a lower-timeframe CHOCH, or an Order Flow signal showing institutional defense.

15 min read

SMC TrainingBeginner

The FVG Retest Entry: Precision Gap Trading

The FVG Retest model: valid gap criteria, three entry options at the FVG, stop placement, and profit targets for bullish and bearish…

14 min read

Market StrategiesIntermediate

The Asian Range Breakout: Session-Based Trading

How to define the Asian session range, then decide whether to trade the breakout or fade a false break using Order Flow…

14 min read

Market StrategiesExpert

The 9:30 Reversal Model: Trading the Cash Open Trap

The NYSE cash open often fakes one direction before reversing. This lesson covers how to spot the trap and trade the 9:45-10:15…

15 min read

SMC TrainingBeginner

The London Sweep Setup: European Session Entry Model

The London Sweep: how European session traders sweep the Asian range for liquidity before reversing, with entry, stop, and target rules.

16 min read

Order FlowBeginner

Absorption vs Exhaustion: Critical Distinctions

Both stall price on volume, but for opposite reasons. Knowing which one you're seeing determines your trade direction and confidence.

13 min read

SMC TrainingIntermediate

Trapped Traders: Profiting from Failed Breakouts

When breakout traders get trapped on the wrong side of a failed move, their forced exits fuel the reversal you can trade.

15 min read

SMC TrainingIntermediate

Delta Divergence Trading: Price vs Order Flow

Delta divergence is when price and order flow disagree: price hits a new high or low while buying or selling pressure quietly…

14 min read