US30 to funded in 2026

Hello hello

24yo from Finland, been trading for various years and had a thread here where I got funded and even had some green years, but always failed in the end due to gambling behaviors / bad habits.
In 2026 I am trading only US30.
I trade price action, mostly using D1, H1, M5 charts.
I look at structure in price action and S/R levels. (Orderblocks, supply&demand, liquidity pools, whatever.)
I try to go for 2R / week on average. I aim for 0-10 trades per week.
The goal is to get funded and get a payout in 2026.
I will not be trading full time and only be updating some days.
I will share some progress and also some analysis if I see something interesting.
I am currently working on living slower. The reason I always failed in the past is because I wanted to get rich quick. I am learning to not trade when the conditions are not right. Going outside in the morning and reading in the evening instead of living off of porn & energy drinks. You know the deal.

I might as well share some analysis while I'm at it. Market opening in 20 minutes. From the D1/H1 perspective I don't see much right now. We are within the HTF range and also have this short-term range. Not interested in this market until it cleans up. Going to need to see another H1 close or a poke above/below the range. No trade right at the open for me, but maybe something later in the day.

Glad I stayed out right at the open. We popped the highs and then the lows. Great short setup there on the M5, targeting the H1 FVG. I think going limit short at the M5 level is too aggressive but once it starts pulling back it just looks like it's going to go right lower which it did.


Now we are back to being in the middle of the range and are putting in this darth maul H1 candle. No edge here. Done for the day.

The market just chopped for the rest of the day, glad to see I knew when to stop trading. The ability to identify bad conditions and not trade them is extremely important.

Anyways, weekends are for improvement so here's what I have been thinking about:

On the 2nd of January the market sold off hard right at the open and I knew it wasn't going to give me a M5 entry as it was so bearish so I went down to the M1 and took a short. It made me think that maybe I need to "allow" myself to use the M1 sometimes when the market is moving too fast. But now after using it for a while I realized that it's almost impossible to be disciplined enough to not just constantly watch the M1, and I just end up getting caught up in extremely low timeframe noise. Especially during the open it is far too easy to jump into a shit trade because you thought you saw something. It seems to be very rare that I actually need it for the types of trades I am looking to take anyways. Maybe once a month. I can live with missing those trades. I'm still taking far too many trades anyways.

So the adjustment I am making is that I will *only* be using the D1, H1, M5. No exceptions.

i am locking for entry