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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Not a necessary thing actually yet all tools are already in the net which is already sufficient for you to learn.If you do like to waste up money for subs then go on but if not then its better not to have this option.Following good traders wont completely teach you out on how they do make money,maybe on some terminologies or basic stuffs and also if he had his own trading that works for him it doesnt mean that it would also works for you.It doesnt work that way so its much better or nothing can beat up on have self learning.