What percentage of Pros would you guys say buy plenty of futures?

It seems like taking flyers is on the rise nowadays?..especially the semi-sharps.

I swear, as a kid, and into adulthood, being in offices, on the phone with NYC & LV, around Movers, Clerks, Runners, I rarely used to hear mention of, or be thrown someone's futures, or see them on a smart-marks list, except some rare football crown preseason buys, or maybe some lower-limit/key-game futures issued by Sonny Reizner or Bob Gregorka.

Is it the array of outs, the ability to get down for larger amounts via sheer volume, despite the varying opinionated numbers?

With finding weak or beatable numbers being the name of the value game, the hold on most preseason lists that I see are criminal, except for the rare & fair darkhorse flyer?

In the old days of huge limits, it seemed maybe some took the attitude of,
" I'll just wait until I see what I'm really dealing with, then get them in the end", or has greater competition for fewer original numbers and lowered limits, made it a case for early birds needing to get all the free worms when available?

Or is it just living in the day and age of Exotics?

I'm out of the loop.

Judge, Shrink, Wil, WB, Fezzik, Bueller, Bueller..anyone?

Future markets are much more generous than in years past is one of the reasons.

To be honest even now I don't think a lot of sharpies play a big amount of futures. I mean if your sharp and can find value there is no need to tie up funds for a long period of time if you can churn it every day. Then if you bet it offshore you have to always wonder about the safety of the shop. Get burned once that way and you will have quite a bit of make up.

Don't get me wrong, I'm square as they come but I don't see the value in a lot of future plays to be honest. It's going to have be a real prominent positive EX for me to tie up big dollars that long and then hope the book is still open on top of that. I'm not saying they are nonexistant in a sharps arsenal but I doubt they are as prevalent as most believe. To answer the qustion in the title of this thread, although it may be on the rise I still think it's very low percentage of pros who make a substantial amount of future bets.