Discussion is fine as long as it does not trickle down one trader's misgivings into the group because often one person of a group will have lost money and they will crib about it bringing down the morale of the rest of the traders. Being a solo trader is best in my opinion, but yours might vary.
Scammers exist in different forms. How one can fool another to get their money is a different topic of discussion. Again influencers and shills are the current level of people who should be avoided at all costs.
I do agree that being solo is definitely better, unless you are VERY wealthy. With solo trading you are not really causing anyone to lose money while you are profiting or nobody else is causing you to lose money while they are profiting. I like to trade coins or tokens that I know that has a future, so I try to catch them before a good news happens.
Just recently I bought Floki right before the Aston Martin advertisement deal, and it went up nearly x2 (like 80%) and I sold it. That is a good way of trading, doesn't need to be based on any data if you know what is about to happen. Of course it is hard to follow hundreds of coins and know news about them all the time, but it is not impossible.
If you fully understand how the market is moving, the kind of strategy will work and fit on you,
What i mean is like how you deal with your trade, you anticipated the good market movement before that Martin's deal
and yes, you made a good profit.
No one tells you but you do it with your own knowledge, better than following anyone, and be disappointed when things went to
the other side and you lose your investment.