Financial News's in-depth look at the year to come: Follow the City's predictions for 2018

Every year in recent memory, traders in the City have looked to the future in the hope that volatility in the markets would finally return, and let them make some money. Those hopes have been almost entirely in vain, thanks to central banks steering markets on a narrow path. But even if 2018 is not the year when traditional markets finally live up to expectations, wild fluctuations in the price of bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies will hark back to the good times.