Your go is before mine, so you can have all the fun you want.
DD: You need to press 'q' and go to the trader depots, you should set it so that it says "Trader requested at depot" and eventually a dwarf should walk to the depot (probably Psy) and then you will have the option to trade. Trading is only useful if you have already brought things to the trade depot using the 'g' option. Trade things such as crafts, instruments, meals if we have enough to spare and if we're overly loaded on cut gems, then they sometimes sell well, too. =]
EDIT: Steve, possibly worth noting that training military is a bitch in the new version of the game, at least in my experience it is. =/ So if you can manage to somehow find an effective way to level them up fast, let me know. I've got 40 soldiers in my current game but most are only decent at what they do as they immigrated in with good military stats. But yeah, getting initially untrained folk to be good at using weapons is annoyingly difficult.
