Hey Guys I started buying coins on coinbase bought my first legit coins on coinbase. Then I moved them to cryptsy. I gained .040btc from trades on my 3rd and 4th day. First day i got .010 next day .007 and then lost .016 same day. Its legit even though all the negative comments about it. So try it out and you can use my referall trade address. Don't think about it just try it...I got .092 starting from .050 in four days (learning also how to read the charts being more and more successful at it) now I added some more btc to my trade account to make more. 
cryptsy: 4bae7ba0975340339bd3816f946133d93b1c6cd3
cryptsy: 4bae7ba0975340339bd3816f946133d93b1c6cd3
Please tell us more about how to trade, when to buy and when to sell. I am in AUS so I can't verify my account as I don't have a US bank account. I am trying to figure a way to get around that.
For what it's worth -- I recently used JustCoin (justcoin.com; they're a Norwegian company) to exchange USD for BTC via wire transfer. Was relatively quick (3 days or so) and painless. JustCoin is a pretty new company, though, so their exchanges have larger spreads than would be ideal. Of course, once you've got BTC, you can move them to a local wallet, or to MtGox, or wherever.
Another service I've been looking into is Peercover (peercover.com), which apparently lets you use a credit card (!) to buy BTC or XRP (Ripple). Their interface is a bit buggy at the moment, but when they're up, I imagine they're by far the easiest way to get some coins.
