I remember about 16 years ago I was doing a trial of the live room. His sidekick, Hubert Senter ran the room, made calls, explained setups etc. About an hour into the session, Hubert announces that he is taking his son to the movies and will probably not be back until tomorrow.....???!!!
Actually had a cat like that. She would panic and complain if she could see the bottom of the bowl. Once filled, if she wasn't hungry would go off and come back to eat later. She just had to know it was there.
I prefer the ES, mainly because I am much more familiar with it's personality. Last week there was just not anything happening. I had 14 signals for the week, in active environments I can get over 20 in a day.
I don't know anything about options but I set targets on futures based on average MFE in my time frames. It keeps things simple and it works for me. You have to test various strategies and understand yourself to find something that works for you.