Forex Volatility is Dead?

I always thought that when the market is tight in ranges it always seems to break out in a expanded range so for example 2013 was a fairly tight range so i guess 2014 was supposed to be a large ranges especially on the majors but they seem to have stalled 2013 was supposed to be large range however they remained tight.

Markets change you need to adjust too if you want to do this long term

This thread seems to be appropriate again.

It is just yet another cycle the market is going through and we need to adapt

Still very tradeable..adaptation is the key, namely smaller time frames, because one may bemoan the volatility, but one cannot deny that the price is moving, constantly, in one direction then the other. What we have to do is to learn to profit from it. That's trading.

Major central banks have killed volatility with their spreadsheets gone ballistic (meaning cheap money for financial institutions, which translates in extreme greed environment = very bad for volatility) + western middle class dying, consuming less and less (and also borrowing less and less) While rich are getting richer no real sector business opportunities forces them to seat on their money or buy stocks. This translates into suppressed inflation, even when central banks are printing money like crazy, as money circulation speed in real sectors has gone down the toilet. We'll have to see equity markets collapse, pension/student lone crisis, China debt crisis, or some similar bubble to burst, before we see VIX return to it's median value. When we'll see hedge funds returning to the currency market, then we'll know, the tide is turning.

This is why you can’t be a trader with just one style, if you really wish to succeed and maintain that then you got to be able to adapt to all situations if required. This is why I never think much of how market is going, as there is always ways to approach it. It is ideal to do scalping in such scenario, but obviously for me it is just too easy to talk and say, but it takes a lot to do it correctly which is why trading is so tough.

you guys didn't spend much time backtesting, did you? these periods of low volatility are nothing new to the market.. 2016 was fairly volatile, then brexit made it EXTREMELY volatile so we are now experiencing low volatility, what's the problem, only long term traders will suffer.

Not, quite, we are in one of the quietest periods with only Chinese, Greece and Brexit causing some moderate volatility since 2013. Lets hope market bubbles start popping soon, overvalued equity markets would be my first candidates to wreak global havoc on financial markets.

Yeah, so by now, pretty much we are very close to the level of the lowest volatility in history. F@cking awesome. I wonder what will make this crap start moving?