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Chriss Rakoot

130 lessons

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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

Exhaustion Patterns: When Moves Run Out of Steam

When aggressive buying or selling stops moving price, that's exhaustion: a signal to exit a position or watch for a reversal.

13 min read

SMC TrainingExpert

Stacked Imbalances: Reading Institutional Conviction

Three or more consecutive one-sided volume levels on a footprint chart signal institutional conviction and set up high-probability entries.

14 min read

Market StrategiesExpert

Trade Management Mastery: From Entry to Exit

Covers stop placement, scaling out, moving to breakeven, trailing stops, and when to exit early or hold a trade.

16 min read

Market StrategiesIntermediate

News Trading: Economic Events and Volatility

A framework for handling high-impact economic releases: event impact levels, pre-news prep, and the four-phase pattern most news spikes follow.

15 min read

Market StrategiesExpert

Trading Bitcoin Futures: Crypto Market Dynamics

CME Bitcoin futures contract specs, what actually moves BTC price, and how SMC concepts hold up against crypto volatility and weekend gaps.

14 min read

Market StrategiesIntermediate

Trading Crude Oil Futures: Energy Market Strategies

Crude Oil (CL) trading strategies built around EIA inventory data, OPEC decisions, and the fundamentals that move oil prices most.

15 min read

Market StrategiesIntermediate

Trading Gold Futures: Safe Haven Dynamics

Gold futures (GC) trade on dollar correlation, rate expectations, and safe-haven flows, with SMC setups at round-number liquidity zones.

14 min read

Market StrategiesIntermediate

Trading NQ Futures: Nasdaq 100 Strategies

NQ (E-mini Nasdaq 100) moves bigger and faster than ES, driven by tech-stock swings. This lesson covers position sizing and SMC adjustments…

15 min read

Market StrategiesExpert

Trading ES Futures: S&P 500 Strategies

ES (E-mini S&P 500) contract specs, optimal trading windows, and how SMC concepts apply to this benchmark futures contract.

16 min read

Trading PsychologyExpert

Recovery from Losses: Mental Reset Strategies

How to recover mentally after a trading loss: avoid revenge trading, distinguish loss types, and rebuild after a drawdown or losing streak.

14 min read