I like to do my own research and i like my success to depend on me and my research, than on someone else.
How do you do your own research then? Don't your spy on what more experienced traders are buying at a time and the amount they put in which sometimes tells their level of confidence in the project, I guess.
However, I would like to do how you start your own independent research.
Doing one's research is not about spying on what whale is doing on their trade because that is risky since you also won't know when they will be pulling the rug off your feet. To do one's research is to study the market through charts, volumes, chain analysis, quantitative and qualitative understanding of the market, or fundamentals like news around the crypto space community sentiment or biase on the coin etc.
To follow a trader as copy trading is risky. It is better to take time to learn through your mistakes and build a strategy.