Quote from: BitcoinWisdom on June 28, 2014, 04:33:49 PM

Quote from: flibbr on June 28, 2014, 02:52:59 PM

Order book depth;

1 issue with the order book depth is the more depth you ask to show (5% vs 1%)... it makes the chart have a lower range of height between candles... when watching on the 1min... on 1% order book depth it looks fine.. but on 5% order book depth the chart looks flat.

The other thing was, ordering on the top; we have 'Stamp / BTC-e / Finex / Huobi . . .' but actually Finex does more volume, has lower fees and margin trading, so all over a better product.
Same with okcoin ~ Okcoin have a way more sophisticated product with advanced algorithmic trading.. maybe it should be ~ Bitfinex / Bitstamp / BTC-e / OKCoin / Huobi ~ and drop the LTC

When it comes to bitcoin exchanges, we want to be promoting and endorsing the very best the market has to offer, both technically and financially, and these are things like OKCoin, Kraken, Bitfinex.. .

Bitstamp has the worst UI ever, spend all their time on KNY regulation bumming and I just feel we should be making more of an effort to promote good players in the market, not players like bistamp who's site has a poor UI and generally no technical advancement since their inception at all.

Because of margin trading, Bitfinex is much smaller than it looks like. and it will cause some misleading.

Current traffic:
Bitstamp 10
BTC-e BTC/USD 7.6
Bitfinex 2.5, (1.6 when not listed at top, 1 in May)
Huobi 5
BTC-e LTC/USD 5
BTC-e LTC/BTC 1.7 when not listed at top (2.5 when listed at top, 2.2 in May)
Generally speaking, BTC-e LTC/BTC should not be replaced by Bitfinex. but I received a lot of requests in Twitter to add Bitfinex to top, and there was 3 USD exchanges listed before Mt.Gox closed down.

Also the weekly alexa of Bitfinex(54595) is much less than Bitstamp(12792). Alexa is not accurate, but it has reference value to check which exchange is larger.

flibbr is right -- I feel like the typical bitcoiners that are busy talking bitcoin from a non-trading perspective do focus on BitStamp and they are getting serenaded by Coindesk and The Foundation -- but the truth is that they have failed to innovative entirely -- traders want more tools and functions in an exchange -- Bitfinex leads USD because they have p2p margin which was a real innovative genesis, I even give props to Btc-e for their PAMM if nothing else than an interesting experiment, and OKCoin seems set on taking the entire market by storm -- their 0 fee model shouldn't be held against them as they have a standalone windows trader and android trading app. In addition their site looks great and they are converting everything to english with plans for a USD market and options. As a trader in the fastest moving thing on the planet I expect nothing less -- so now tell me what BitStamp has done other than bow to compliance officers ? *crickets*