As a trader with 9 years experience, I'd much rather be front run than borrow conviction from another trader.

There's no worse feeling than deviating from your own plan then watching it come true shortly after. You believed in someone else more than yourself and now you're paying the price for it. This starts a cycle of constantly second guessing yourself, struggling with confidence, and it can honestly go back and forth like this for years.

Over time you'll learn that YOUR BEST is what has to be enough and that YOU can be great. You don't need anyone else.

You'll catch some trades and you'll miss some trades. You'll win some and you'll lose some, but make sure you OWN your trades and not someone else. That's the best way to learn, become disciplined, gain confidence, and ultimately become profitable over the long-term.

If you're very inexperienced, it's okay to learn and borrow conviction from publicly profitable traders, but I recommend utilizing small size until you can formulate your own plans with confidence.