How does Waves compare against Bitshares. I have been rooting for Bitshares but would definitely like to know more about WAVES and hedge by bets as I am currenlty betting fully on Bitshares.

The charges of trades are very high nobody is taking a note of that. I wrote a post on Irony of trading Cryptocurrencies on Centralised exchanges and why I moved to bitshares. But without the volumes on these DEX are still a long way from mass adoption. The spread is so wide that no serious traders would consider DEX yet.