Originally Posted by jscott

if you're talking mining, instead of trading, then you'll need as many good luck wishes as you can get

as for trading, you can start buy depositing USD to coinbase. Setting up accounts for USD deposits isnt quick or easy, lots of verifying and all, but you'd be doing same if setting up a stock trading acct

Once you deposit usd, buy BTC, send to trading platform like Bitfinex (no usa), Mercatox, Bitmex (no usa), Cex, HitBTC to begin your trading (bitfinex is best platform i've ever used)