Ideally, diversified basket of futures, the price at one point or another will compress, and breakout. The timescale of compression is variable, but what is inevitable is a breakout on the daily.
the question becomes why waste time and park capital in 'indecisive' instruments. Indecisive instruments implies the participants in that instrument are not accepting of price variance on the daily. The price becomes locked.
In contrast to other instruments where prices can scale multiple levels, and participation is unabated.