Hi @doodlebear,
Thanks for the advice.
Regarding trading of aeon there are many exchanges that support aeon the major one being https://bittrex.com
Once you download aeon from https://github.com/aeonix/aeon/releases/tag/v0.9.14.0 and compile aeon you should run the simplewallet executable file.It creates a wallet and gives you a seed and address for your wallet.The seed can be used to recover the wallet.Once you have some balance in your wallet run the daemon which is aeond executable and then open the wallet and enter refresh command .
After refreshing you can see your balance which you can send to your exchange wallet like bittrex to trade with .