A volatile market attracts traders and speculators. A stable market attracts merchants and businesses.
that's the complicated part though. each of these two will be the cause of the other. for example more merchant and businesses adoption we have, as a result we will also have a bigger rise and a big volatility and that attracts more speculators and traders and then increase the price while most of them will also become interested in bitcoin as a currency and start spending it which makes more merchants adopt bitcoin....
that is why we are waiting for mass adoption...