Its relative and without going off on tangents, there are many considerations depending on the underlying and how aggressive a mover it is, time til expiration, etc. Ill give you a real world example. Take GOOG right now this morning. Its tanking by over $7 a share, but the in the money JAN put barely appreciated by $4, while the JAN SSF contract is down $6.80.
so was this another brilliant new market that just couldn't take off? seems like that is how its described
Have a look at the volume for friday 1277 contracts spread out over all the single stock futures, AMAZING http://www.onechicago.com/oc/genEODReport.do;jsessionid=6EDE3F578025967511D19428ED6A156D#SSF
C,mon...you can't judge the volume on the Friday before Christmas. Dec 8th : 33,944 Dec 15th : 18,396
Chicago, IL â December 1, 2006 â OneChicago, LLC today reported that 790,076 security futures contracts traded at the Exchange in November, a 12.4% increase from November 2005 volume. Average daily volume (ADV) in November was 37,623 contracts. Don't have December #'s yet. If your interested, you'll have to use your link, and do some adding and averaging.