If I had to guess at it, that's the reason why everyone is
routing their orders to BitStamp, just to be able to use
the good BitStamp charts that are available to trade on.
...which are? Tradingview only displays MtGox afaik.
I am actually also working on charting sites and so far there are no real Open Source ones that I found and the closed source ones don't really care to invest the work implementing yet another API to get a handful of Bitcoiners who want to trade 200 USD...
What trading/charting software would you like to use and is there an API available to stream data to this software that one can use freely? (e.g. Bloomberg, OpenMAMDA...)
You could also use MetaTrader4 or MetaTrader5
if Bitfinex's API is compatible, it has really nice charts:
http://www.metatrader4.com/http://www.metatrader5.com/Other Exchanges use it and everybody loves it !
Metatrader is NOT an open API (they sue people writing servers for it and their business model is more or less forcing people to use their server software and pying for their consultants to connect it to your exchange). See
http://www.metaquotes.net/en/metatrader4Yes I know, don't know the exact cost,
but my line of thinking was that maybe,
just maybe Bitfinex might be willing to
cover that cost, surely it would bring more
traders online with Bitfinex.
Have you seen the chart that BtChina gives
you to trade on ?, what a joke, but TradeView
also has a chart for BtChina, which compenstates
for their joke of a chart they provide, but BtChina's
system of trading one would practically have to have
a calculator at your side just to make your trades,
I can see it now, 2 Billion Chinese all sitting at their
computers with their calculators in hand, guess it works
for them with the exponential growth they have experienced !