Thanks for all the replies guys. To answer a few questions I am working full time and my job it fairly well paying, basically I have extra money to invest at this point. As far as mining I do plan to eventually built a farm and I've been looking into the cost of the building, power, dealing with the heat, etc. But for now I'll see how many miners I can get away with having in my basement for now, electricity is about $0.10 kwh. I have a fairly decent understanding of how mining works.

As far as trading goes I've never done it so it's completely new to me. My though was mixing mining and trading so I'm just trying to get some input from people more experienced than I am.