Heres my 3 cents for today:
Transaction fees: Will be lowered/changed soon.
I agree that a 1NXT fee to change an AE order could be seen as being too high, but the AE is not intended as a high frequency trading platform and, right now, thats the way it is.
On exchanges:We've just had two new exchanges come on board with NXT:
www.ccedk.comwww.hitbtc.comBoth are fairly new, but very professional, and both offer a range of fiat transfer possibilities, which is cool.
They obiously suffer from the chicken and egg problem : need to get volume to get users, need users to get volume.
But: if you want to have a trading option that isn't BTER or Cryptsy, put your money where your mouth is and start trading with them.
I've been doing most of my NXT trading on CCEDK recently, and I've also traded some BTC and NXT on HitBtc, They both work very well.
On the price:Shit.....but NXT is not the only alt that's suffering. It's August, people want to cash out for holidays and summer toys.
Look at the current alt-coin slaughter as a damn good buy-in opportunity......