Well I am a professional trader that works from home. I would recommend first taking a few classes in accounting and finance, so when you read a pr you know what the co is talking about. Second some books on technical analysis. If you want to do intraday trading such as myself, I would highly recommending downloading a free screen recorder so you can review the action on a stock whenever you want to. After that you pretty much gotta choose yourself what type of investing/trading you want to do. .