> Why change to something that's "almost as useful" .. that's a downgrade.
To clarify: There would be two modes, for example, when looking at the prices of options you might want to see the shape of the smile (e.g. equivalent to the markets view of a certain probability distribution), but when trading a specific option you want to know everything about it down to exact prices.
it's not about pretty-ness, indeed some of these charts can be completely incomprehensible, but rather density.
Our UIs should be more than just Excel-but-not-in-Excel!
To clarify: There would be two modes, for example, when looking at the prices of options you might want to see the shape of the smile (e.g. equivalent to the markets view of a certain probability distribution), but when trading a specific option you want to know everything about it down to exact prices.
it's not about pretty-ness, indeed some of these charts can be completely incomprehensible, but rather density.
Our UIs should be more than just Excel-but-not-in-Excel!