The arrow on a charged-fermion line in a Feynman diagram tracks fermion-number flow and fixes the order of the gamma matrices between external Dirac spinors. For an external particle it agrees with the particle direction; for an external antiparticle it is opposite to the antiparticle direction. It therefore need not point along the assigned four-momentum of every external leg.

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