As personally, I believe we have to follow the footsteps of top traders as well as we have to build our own strategies to trade, who knows your plans can give better results. But as a newbie its better if we follow the top trader and learn from them as they can teach you things you cannot able to explore yourself in short time and you can add up your own brain and efforts to make a reliable trading plan.
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This is called modelling and it is critical for your success, at the beginning when you are just a newbie you are going to have trouble deciding what strategy to use to earn money in the markets, as such it is important to find other traders and investors you admire and read everything you can about them, especially their strategies, then from those strategies you can use the one that better adapts to your style, and once you acquire more experience you can try to improve the strategy you are currently using.