The market is more volatile these days and base on what i can sense, its more suitable for the short time traders, this will help them to closely monitor the move as they speculate within a close range range on whether to rise or fall and the earn their money from that even though it may have to be little, but its profitable and also have risk along side, some traders will prefer this period because its best for them to exercise their skills on trades.
I prefer both because when am trading, sometimes i may like to go short while in some circumstances go long, we have to also know the strategy that best fit our trading skills with experience before choosing on which one to take, i prefer when the market is highly volatile because you can make some cool profits in their numbers of time when your order got to confirm.