I have recently started looking at the british pound futures, which is what I used to be testing on for intraday trading.

I noticed that the bollinger spreads were quite a bit more narrow on average than what it was a couple years ago.

I did a rough check of the daily trading ranges of this year. It seemed to be on average less than 100 tick each day, whereas a couple years ago it was often 200+.

Is this accurate? If so, does anyone know the reason for this?

GBP fx pairs volatility increased in 2008 and 09 due to credit crisis as in EUR pairs and now it has come back to 100 or less fofr GBPUSD. GBP is manipulated by a central bank of Britain thats why its overall volatility and trading range is less than EUR. Also most of spot fx trading volume goes in euro pairs, then USDJPY is second and GBP is third in terms of volume.If there is another gobal crisis, then ADR will again rise for most of the pairs.

That makes sense, thanks.