Hi
a few questions and recommendations:
on charts table:
what does
MKT
VWAP
mean?
on arbitrage table:
if I understand correct the numbers
eg:
-5.xx -6.xx%
means the first number is absolute amount in USD and the second in %, - but I think % is the most important number and therefore has to be big and bold or so?
it will be a nice feature if the highest (1 or 2) number(s) in % is in another color and/or bold or major
the colors are very confusing me...
why don't you take the colors used in whole world in traffic lights (red, Yellow, green and perhaps white or black as the 4.)
that is much more intuitive (orange is too much near red for me and means stop for me...)
I hope this is constructive review for you
thx
Hi, ewibit!
Thank you for your constructive attitude
We really appriciate it
Please be sure that your opinion is valuable for us. As opinion of all our active and would be customers
You are right there are plenty to be done to improve the service and to become mature and actually really useful.
We wanted to assure you and all our customers and guests that we are working hard to make this improvement come true.
You are absolutely right about those terms. The documentation lacks their description. And we will fix this inconvinience with our planned next update which I hope come very soon.
But to clarify your question I can tell that we used fairly common abbreviations for the sake of simplicity and minimalism.
MKT usually means Market Order (
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MKT) . So the full name of the term '1000 BTC MKT Exec Price' reads - 1000 BTC Market Order Execution Price. This is exactly the price at which you actually can buy/sell 1000 BTC on a given exchange in one market order. The idea to calculate this parameter was primarily from the trading convinience point of view. We assume that it might be useful to know current market execution price in conjunction with certain voume than just best price without relevant volume.
VWAP stands for - Volume Weighted Average Price so label 'VWAP Last 1000 BTC Traded' answers the following question: What was the price of last 1000 BTC sold or bought respectively. Here we assume that it will be interesting to compare how different Market Order price to sell/buy 1000 BTC from actually traded last 1000 BTC on the current market. Last 1000 BTC sold or bought could be traded in one big chunk or in a lot of small 0.1-1.0 BTC trades. To tell at which price it was sold/bought we calculate average price of all last trades until the sum of those trades equals 1000 BTC. Thus we believe this allows us to use the term VWAP in this case.
As for the arbitrage table format you are also absolutely correct. It must be some how reworked. I can agree with you that percent is more relevant for analyzes and must be better and differently highlighted. Your suggestion about colors coding is also relevant. And please be sure we are carefully gathering all such suggestions from all our customers to collect as much as possible opinions. Then when critical mass of such data is collected we will be able to analyze it and make a decision what must be done here and there.
Once more thank you.
From our side I can tell that before the release of this service we were very concentrated on wide variety of technical issues: such as stability of the service, performance issues, user accounts and payment processing. Interaction with exchanges orderbook and trading api. Collecting data in database and on and on and on...
So we ask for your understanding that we choose to delay some questions and decided to solve them not optimally but from the simple aesthetics point of view.
Once more thank you for using our service and giving us your constructive opinion, it is very important for us.
bitcoin-analytics.com devs team