I have few questions:
1. Why I cannot find BTS_TRADE on Exchange Tab?
I can only go there with link:
https://bitshares.openledger.info/#/exchange/trade/BTS_TRADE.BTC
2. When market history will be fixed? (reported https://github.com/cryptonomex/graphene-ui/issues/339, known isuee since 17 June!!!)
3.
Minimal counter party risk. Right now you have to trust the exchange with both BTS and BTC. Now you only have to trust the Gateway with BTC.
No. This is not minimal. I think all TRADE_BTS can be stolen by the owner of the gateway. Why this just cannot automatically buy bitBTC with BTC? Gateway should automatically provide an information about rate bitBTC/BTC and when user deposit real BTC on gateway those BTC should be automatically converted to bitBTC.
For 1), I have the same issue as you, but it doesn't happen on BMs machine. Possibly it's something to do with different browsers, but this needs to be fixed.
For 2), don't have any input on this
For 3), the risk is minimal if you don't hold TRADE.BTC for long. Essentially you do the following:
1) Deposit BTC to get TRADE.BTC (delay time of 1 bitcoin confirmation)
2) Buy BTS on the TRADE.BTC vs BTS market (or whatever BitAsset you desire). At this point, the BTS or BitAsset is in your wallet under your control.
For the reverse process, you buy TRADE.BTC with BTS from the bitshare exchange.
Then withdraw the TRADE.BTC to BTC (once again asset is under your control).
In short, you can rapidly trade out of TRADE.BTC if you're concerned that the keys to it will be compromised.
TRADE.BTC isn't really intended as a speculative investment, so most people should be willing trade in and out of it for BitBTC or BTS quickly. We'll also have a pair up soon that allows blocktrades visitors to trade into BitBTC from TRADE.BTC. The intent of TRADE.BTC is to offer an "off-ramp" to bitcoin, whereas BitBTC is intended to be the speculative coin to hold for investment purposes.