And your story fits exactly with a hands-off automated approach to trading. We wont ever be charting a price series in the production environment because computers don't get charts.
I wish. I keep waiting for some more interesting news from Coinlab [1][2], but so far, Mtgox are still the largest exchange by volume. Here is a chart showing volume by (selected) exchanges. http://bitcoincharts.com/markets/currency/USD.html
The recent events seem to only have got them more customers (though it remains to be seen how many of them will stick). In any case, some of the other exchanges have API's that are similar to mtgox.
[1] https://mtgox.com/press_release_20130228.html
[2] http://www.forbes.com/sites/jonmatonis/2012/04/24/coinlab-at...