Zakura Trading Academy

A plain-English introduction to Smart Money Concepts: market structure, break of structure, change of character, order blocks, fair value gaps and liquidity — with XAUUSD examples.

What ICT trading means: kill zones, liquidity raids, market structure shift, fair value gap entries and session timing, explained for XAUUSD traders in Cambodia.

What XAUUSD is, how gold trades through the Asian, London and New York sessions, how spread and volatility behave, and how to read structure on a gold chart.

Position sizing, the R multiple, where a stop belongs, and what a drawdown actually costs to recover — the arithmetic every gold trader needs before a first trade.

Read momentum on a 0–100 scale, and understand why an overbought reading is not an automatic sell.

Separate a signal-line crossover from a zero-line crossover, and read what the histogram actually measures.

Understand smoothing, lookback periods, and the trade-off between a quicker response and more noise.

Read the middle line, outer bands, and a squeeze without assuming price must reverse at a band.

Measure movement in price units, account for gaps, and separate volatility from direction.

Compare the close with its recent range and understand the %K and %D lines.

Use separate readings for trend strength and directional movement instead of treating rising ADX as a buy signal.

Understand the price benchmark, its reset point, and why the volume source matters.

Distinguish traded volume from tick counts and understand how On Balance Volume accumulates.

Identify the cloud’s components and avoid confusing a forward drawing offset with knowledge of future prices.

Practise rejection, breakout, and retest rules in the member course.

Study a reference range, sweep, reclaim, and invalidation step by step.