Copy trading can lead us into profits at some point, but it can never ultimately provide us a consistent flow of income. Nevertheless, even trading itself cannot ensure beginner traders to earn from it because of the high risks that are involved in trading. Furthermore, what makes it more dangerous to use is that you are copy trading from a very unreliable trading provider. You will not only lose your capital and future profits, but the time you put into it will only go into waste.
Everything in this cryptocurrency industry is all about risk-taking. Even a professional trader will at a time lose money. What differentiates a good trader from a bad trader is whether they are running on losses or profits on the long run. You cannot use a very short time to measure the professionalism of a particular trader.
When you talk about copy trading it is also risky, but this time around the risk is more uncontrollable by the copy trader because the signals and method of trading is not emanating from the copy trader. It is rather coming from another person therefore, the copy trader might not be able to control the trade if things are going wrong.
However, I prefer copy trading to bots trading. I know all of them is risky, but the most important of them is that you should learn how to trade by yourself at least.