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Price Dynamics

Swing Acceleration

Whether each successive swing happens faster or slower than the previous one: the rate of change of velocity, revealing whether momentum is building or fading.

How Draconic reads it

Acceleration is the second derivative of price. When swings accelerate — each move completing faster than the last — momentum has genuine strength behind it. Pullbacks in an accelerating trend tend to be shallow and brief, making it a strong environment for entries in the trend direction. When swings decelerate — each move taking progressively longer to complete — the trend is weakening even if price is still moving the right way. Deceleration is one of the earliest exhaustion signals available because it appears in the structure of the moves themselves, before any oscillator or momentum indicator reflects the change. Negative acceleration (the rate of speed is falling) into a rising price is a divergence that often precedes reversal.

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