Directional Movement (ADX) forecast vs outcome — Micro E-mini Nasdaq 100, 15-minute chart, September 8, 2026

Educational reference. Data covers September 8, 2026, 4:13 PM to 11:28 PM ET. This window has closed; every value below already printed.

On September 8, 2026 at 4:13 PM ET, Directional Movement (ADX) on the Micro E-mini Nasdaq 100 15-minute chart read 11.3763. The model projected the next 30 bars from that point. The window ran to 11:28 PM ET and has since closed, so the projection and the outcome can be placed side by side.

What was projected

12.117.5222.94Sep 8, 4:13 PM ET11:28 PM ET
Projected Directional Movement (ADX) path, 30 bars from 4:13 PM ET. Dashed line marks the reading at the start of the window.

What actually printed

12.117.5222.94Sep 8, 4:13 PM ET11:28 PM ET
Recorded Directional Movement (ADX) values over the same 30 bars.

The two paths, side by side

Reading at 4:13 PM ET11.3763
Projected value at 11:28 PM ET19.0218
Actual value at 11:28 PM ET23.6713
Projected change across the window+7.64551
Actual change across the window+12.295
Bars moving the same direction24 of 29
Bars on the projected side of the opening reading29 of 30
Projected move relative to actual0.62×

Reading this window

The projection called for Directional Movement (ADX) to rise across the window, and it rose. The market travelled further than projected — the projection covered only 0.62 times the realised distance. Bar to bar, 83% of the moves ran the same way as the projection, and 29 of the 30 bars finished on the projected side of the opening reading. One window is a single observation, not a pattern; it is published here so the projection and the outcome can be checked against each other.

How the window developed

The two paths were closest at bar 17 (8:13 PM ET), where they sat 0.31778 apart, and furthest at bar 29 (11:28 PM ET) with a gap of 4.64948. The largest single-bar change in the recorded values came at bar 29 (11:28 PM ET), a move of +1.62319. The projected and recorded paths crossed at least once inside the window.

Bar-by-bar read-out

Six points sampled across the 30 bars, showing the projected value, the value that printed, and the difference between them.

BarTime (ET)ProjectedRecordedDifference
14:28 PM12.770211.5049-1.26531
65:43 PM15.563913.2169-2.34701
127:13 PM17.365315.9287-1.43662
188:43 PM18.099720.2787+2.17901
2410:13 PM18.498920.3813+1.88243
2911:28 PM19.021823.6713+4.64948

About Directional Movement (ADX) on a 15-minute chart

ADX summarises how strongly a market is trending, without saying which way. Higher readings mean a more persistent move, in either direction. On the 15-minute timeframe a 30-bar projection covers 7.5 hours of trading, so the window above describes 7.5 hours of Micro E-mini Nasdaq 100 activity rather than a single print.

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