There are plenty of good charts to look at for pricing, but less so on the exchange volume front.

How quickly can one cash out a big chunk of BTC -> USD at today's exchange volumes? Obviously it's great if you got in early and are sitting on 100,000 BTC, but you aren't going to wire yourself $90m tomorrow, I assume.

Thanks, makes sense, wasn't totally clear from the newbie README. Probably helps stop people from creating new accounts every hour to post in the begging threads.

Many of the fly-by-night currencies have no confidence (if you can call it such a thing).

Be wary.