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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But the thing with top traders is they rarely share their actual strategies. You also have to look at top traders who have consistently been there for years. Some places which track you can see top traders in 1 year didn't do well previous years or following years. You want consistent above average traders, IMO.