Since the links for newbies was given out to you already. And you had mentioned about trading and mining, let's go first with trading. In trading, you must be a continuous learner. You don't stop just because you gain something and you must open with different suggestion of the traders that are ahead to you. With mining, it's not profitable if you plan to mine bitcoins now. Why? Most of the people who mine bitcoins are just surrendering because of their lack of resource / rig. Only the mining farms can earn now there, try out mining with alt coins through GPU's.