what happened to the volatility in BTC in the last week

[mr.mister]

This lull in the market is temporary. Be prepared for a storm.
When movement (either upward or downwards) happens, it tends to be violent.

I hope that it violently goes down.

[Febo]

Hey guys, just thought maybe I can get some insight from some of you who have the knowledge. I noticed that there has been very little volatility in the last week. Can someone please explain why? Someone mentioned to me that there are not many bots operating, but I am not certain that is true.

Thank-you for your thoughts.

People went on vacations. Half of Europe is christian and Europe is  1/3 of Crypto space according to  this research :  http://www.jbs.cam.ac.uk/fileadmin/user_upload/research/centres/alternative-finance/downloads/2017-global-cryptocurrency-benchmarking-study.pdf   Expect that bloodbath will continue on Tuesday.

[zimmah]

Markets can't stay volatile forever.

Also, they can't stay not-volatile forever.   

It alternates between volatile and peaceful all the time.

[ImHash]

I think OP wants $200-$300 drop in price in one day and $250-$350 rise the next day so he could profit trading bitcoins that's not going to happen or at least not the way you'd like it to happen as more and more exchanging companies getting regulated price manipulation becomes harder but not that much.
There might be also some reason for that which I guess many people trying to mine themselves with ASICBOOST and stuff.

Another reason, this is a free market and things like this happens, we need stable market with snail speed growth otherwise it would scare away non risk taker investors.

[Wipro]

Markets can't stay volatile forever.

Also, they can't stay not-volatile forever.   

It alternates between volatile and peaceful all the time.

Actually the fact about the bitcoin price is volatile always even you could check the price chart to confirm that. this price trend is moving up and down due to rate of adoption over bitcoin and its technology. personally i don't expect bitcoin to settled in one stable value, just need to move up everyday.