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

Educational reference. Data covers September 8, 2026, 4:14 PM to 11:29 PM ET. This window has closed; every value below already printed.

On September 8, 2026 at 4:14 PM ET, Directional Movement (ADX) on the Micro E-mini Nasdaq 100 15-minute chart read 11.0273. The model projected the next 30 bars from that point. The window ran to 11:29 PM ET and has since closed, so the projection and the outcome can be placed side by side.

What was projected

11.415.9220.44Sep 8, 4:14 PM ET11:29 PM ET
Projected Directional Movement (ADX) path, 30 bars from 4:14 PM ET. Dashed line marks the reading at the start of the window.

What actually printed

11.415.9220.44Sep 8, 4:14 PM ET11:29 PM ET
Recorded Directional Movement (ADX) values over the same 30 bars.

The two paths, side by side

Reading at 4:14 PM ET11.0273
Projected value at 11:29 PM ET19.2184
Actual value at 11:29 PM ET21.0497
Projected change across the window+8.19118
Actual change across the window+10.0225
Bars moving the same direction22 of 29
Bars on the projected side of the opening reading26 of 30
Projected move relative to actual0.82×

Reading this window

The projection called for Directional Movement (ADX) to rise across the window, and it rose. The two moves were close in size: the projection covered 0.82 times the distance the market actually travelled. Bar to bar, 76% of the moves ran the same way as the projection, and 26 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 22 (9:29 PM ET), where they sat 0.286428 apart, and furthest at bar 11 (6:59 PM ET) with a gap of 4.89195. The largest single-bar change in the recorded values came at bar 22 (9:44 PM ET), a move of +1.19814. 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
14:29 PM13.919110.9207-2.9984
65:44 PM16.103311.8003-4.30298
127:14 PM17.314712.6933-4.62144
188:44 PM18.48918.1108-0.378258
2410:14 PM18.92520.5652+1.64017
2911:29 PM19.218421.0497+1.83131

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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