Just thought I'd update since I've also learned that voting means you lose all your privacy because the signature of your voting will give away the connection between even your unregistered accounts.

Perhaps voting slates could help keep privacy. Or perhaps there is a way in the future to vote without compromising privacy.

There may be times when someone wants to buy an asset in a certain amount but they want the trade to happen only at the Price Feed. So perhaps we could add a new kind of order that would BUY/SELL with limit at the feed price.

I don't know exactly how accurate it is but this is what I understand. .

In bitshares the 101 Delegates are voted in to execute the code for a bitAsset market engine which manages the market by:
keeping accurate price feeds (USD,CNY, EURO, GOLD, BTC),
creating bitAsset units against shorting trades,
signing bitAsset transfers,
expiring the short side of trades,
and triggering margin calls if collateral is squeezed by the price algorithm

This decentralizes the market administration which means traders do not have counter party risk while trading. So instead of only avoiding counter party risk while sitting in a basic account, with bitshares account holders also avoid counter party risk while trading bitAssets. Since the bitAssets are "Assets For Difference"* their value tracks external world assets. So bitAssets act as crypto currencies with values linked to external markets.
 
Bitcoin can do multi-signature accounts but it doesn't have such market engine features natively. I read assumptions about bitshares that seem unaware of the absence of counter party risk while trading and holding bitAssets. It is important when comparing with bitcoin, Tether, NuBits, etc to explain this particular feature as it's a very unique and valuable.   

*bitAssets should not be called contracts or CFDs because a contract implies something is unfinished and so obligations exist that still need to be performed. Since bitAssets are automated algorithms they are already completed when they are transferred and do not depend upon a counter party to perform anything further.

Expiring shorts are also automated so are exposed to the same issue but everyone agrees they shouldn't be penalized 10%. If the market feed price is trailing the market price that is a separate problem that should be addressed separately. Perhaps compare the current price feed to that of yesterday or 4 hours ago to see whether a swan event is currently happening or something. But anyway it shouldn't be a policy against the short who is margin called.

Yes. I don't have a problem with it for margin calls, but enabling it for expirations is pretty bad.

Why should it even happen for margin calls? The whole point of putting down a certain amount of collateral is to keep you covered up to a certain market price. Once that point is reach you just unwind. The participant has already lost pretty bad at that point so I can't see any trading strategy that depends on that setup.

I was thinking something like this:

Shorting in bitshares.doc

I have no idea if the details in here are correct. Perhaps someone who understands shorting better can update it.

Looking at bitCNY here and here:
https://coinmarketcap.com/assets/bitcny/
http://www.bitsharesblocks.com/asset/info?asset=CNY

Unfortunately one chart is market cap in USD and the other is CNY. But in both charts it appears that the demand for bitCNY over 365 days is very firm. Between April 11 and 14 someone bought 50k USD on bitCNY. In CNY the collateral locked by the network has tripled since December. On the other hand the bitUSD market cap has been falling. Unfortunately it the bitsharesblocks bitUSD charts do not display the supply charts for some reason.

I wish I could view all these charts based in BTS. Anyone know where to get the raw data from? Am I reading this data right?