Investopedia

Investopedia. 
Great site for getting some basics and a few more advanced topics under your belt.

http://www.investopedia.com/
http://www.investopedia.com/university/
http://www.investopedia.com/university/technical/

Plenty more to look at. Just hunt around. Suggestions will come in future posts.

Quantopian

No getting away from it, once we know our technical terms and what they mean, we need to confront the elephant in the room. 

Quantopian.

This is probably the best tool out there for back and forwards testing your knowledge, from the humble beginnings of your first simple algorithm that chases moving averages, to your ultimate world beating strategies that you hope will make you rich beyond avarice. 

First of all; What is Quantopian (wiki)

And then the beast itself; quantopian.com

Where do you start? Learn (and support) should be obvious. Forum communities are a good place too. 

Try things. Test stuff. Play around. Learn.

Standard Deviation

Standard Deviation is your friend. Alas, a lot of people, especially engineers and developers, don't actually know what it is nor how to work it out.

The Standard Deviation is simply a measure of how spread out numbers are.




(N - number of elements, Xi - element i in range X, u - mean)

Explanation 1
Slightly more in depth explanation 2

Got it? Easy eh.

PANDAS!

Just a data modelling framework, but it might just be a bit useful.

Pandas link

Documentation

First resource

Our first resource assumes you can program in at least one language and are the type of person who can pick it up in another easily.

UDA City - Machine learning for trading
You will need to register. It's free and so is the course.

What do we want? MONEY

Philosophers got it wrong.
We don't want to turn lead into gold,
We want to make money from money.

Here we start.