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I'd advise you to read Fortune's Formula, by William Poundstone first. It's entertaining, an easy read, and you'll pick up loads of information that will be useful going forward.

After that:

If you want to invest on fundamentals go for both of Graham&Dodd (aka the bible) and Seth Klarman's margin of safety (http://www.my10000dollars.com/MS.pdf).

For technical/quant trading both Trading+Exchanges and Volatility Trading are good books to read. Then look up some of the articles on wilmott.com and papers about things like Universal Portfolios or Neural Networks for trading on places like CiteSeer. Poking around Interactive Brokers' documentation isn't a bad idea either.

Hope this helps!

Do you think that tech training is a decent market in general, or just for this one industry?

Can we chat on AIM/email?

Would you be up for an email/AIM chat about this?

You can get a lot of things on CiteSeer

By reality one could consider any of a number of small prop trading shops which do rather well.

What type of analysis did you look into? i.e. what were your input vectors / output?

There's a saying in the industry: your strategy will go south as soon as you put real money on it -- you can't raise capital without a track record of real money success.

Do you think that interday would be more suitable then?

Thanks! I'll give it a shot!

I'm tempted. Though might a blog be better? Also, it might be nice to have someone to do it with, as then I could get explanations for things that befoggle me.

If it helps, the sort of questions that interest me are: what types of sounds are pleasing to the ear, or, what rules do I have to constrain randomness within before I can generate music that sounds like _____, or (presumably with a factor model) what team is most like to win the world cup =P

I've built some text generators, and a POS tagger. But, for much of the more interesting stuff I want to do, it seems like I need things like time-series, or regression models -- which elude me entirely at the moment.

Aren't there web enabled baby monitors?

I'm in Queens.

Hi, I'm actually the OP -- sorry for taking so long to reply, but my laptop went KABOOM a little whlie back, taking my saved hn password with it. I'd love to chat more if you've the time, my AIM is thelemonkiller -- if you prefer another means of communication, let me know!