anyone know how to sleuth the actual volume of pit vs electronic volume for: natural gas (NG) Crude (CL) Heating Oil (RB) Unleaded (RB) Their website seems to combine them, making it hard to separate... http://www.nymex.com/RB_fut_cso.aspx
Maybe in a quote system you can enter CL and CLE and see if they give different volumes. From a practical standpoint, What importance volume has, unless you're trading hundreds of million $s? If the spread is not too wide, you'll get a decent order. However, ALWAYS use limit orders.
http://www.nymex.com/media/071008.pdf See page 16. Subtract globex volume from total volume, and I'm assuming "other" volume are block trades, so you'll probably want to subtract those as well.
I believe nymex is roughly 90% electronic in futures.......which has been pretty constant with most exchanges for the last few years. Options are almost 100% pit traded I think
I love to give advice: I'll give you one. Stop whining and start making money and enjoy having a life. The advice given to the OP is good, if the spread acceptable, you'll get a decent fill after hours, unless you're trading hundreds of contracts.