Interesting read, thanks. I've come upon DEXbot ~3 months ago and got hooked...
- There should already be some meaningful volume.
I've been just looking for a high volume liquid market. But volume might be misleading! Found there is ESCO.TRO coin, which happens is not a TRON but TRUNK. High volatility - seems great for the bot. Volume is today 1.5 miilion USD. Wow. But... TRO is not TRON but TRUNK. Spread is (had to check several times) ~20%. Not 0.2% but 20%. It's not liquid at all! I have no clue why the trades and orders are as they are. Very strange. Found similar strangeness on PPY market. So there are markets with a very high strangeness factor.
Well, I'm quite new to bitshares, so maybe I misinterpret some facts... plenty to learn. But learning curve seems to be much steeper than on traditional CEX.