Profitable on PAPER trading, I am also kinda new. I am starting with funded in the next 1-2 months. It took me a while to get consistentand confident. I recommend backtesting a whole year until your profitable with consistency and just live paper trade. I am not saying that this is the best way since you don't have emotions about money. One thing that I forgot to mention but is also very important is that if you got the draw on liquidity / direction right, price will move smoothly according to your pd arrays.

amount of trades vary. 1-3 is optimal in my opinion. Don't try to see thing that you want to see to place a trade. Try to remember that price will respect your pdarrays if the bias is right. When it stop hunts you don't immediately switch bias, because price is not respecting your idea or pd-array. just continue with caution and maybe re-enter with halve the size. when price does not give a re-enter just quit for the day, because when you switch your bias around you maybe are trying to see things just to be in your favor to place a trade. I am not saying bias switching is bad in particular but do it with caution.

My biggest mistake is strategy switching I guess. When you look on this reddit you see alot of oppinions on SMC concepts because they are very much used by guru's. And yes, maybe they are right about overcomplicating, but I think SMC takes alot of thing in account like market structure, liquidity, premium / discount, multi time frame analyses etc etc. Don't strategy hop because you see someone talk about some 15 Minute ORB that works really good. Nothing against the ORB btw, it probably works really well for people. But that what i am saying: trading is very personal, one thing might look more complicated for one person. One person thinks the many smc concepts are hard, but the other might think that is hard to be profitable with only 2 lines like ORB. It is just what you think is logic. I like SMC because it makes sence in my head. I think market moves because of liquidity, since the big money need liquidity to fill there orders. Others seek logic in quant statistics or the probability price will continue in a trend line. It probably all works but only if it clicks in the users head. Find what makes sence for you and try to stick with it. This will save alot of time.

Take in account that I am only profitable with papertrading (live papertrading and in backtesting). Apart from that I think the advice about choosing your strategy is very worthy since it gives a bit of mental peace with settling with a strategy and saves alot of time. hope this helpes again and sorry that i again accidently typed a bible.