It is this rate of motion that is important to the chaos trader. There are three types of motion of interest to the chaos trader. The first type is a flat or choppy market. This is a market going nowhere, neither up nor down. The second type is a normally trending move.
Motion is steady and orderly.
The third type of motion is a chaotic breakaway move. On a reasonably scaled chart, these moves can be identified by their rate of motion. This can be easily seen by observing the slope of the moving average. The choppy, flat market will have a slope less than 15 degrees. A trending market will have a slope near 30 degrees.