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

Educational reference. Data covers September 8, 2026, 4:15 PM to 11:30 PM ET. This window has closed; every value below already printed.

On September 8, 2026 at 4:15 PM ET, Directional Movement (ADX) on the Micro E-mini Nasdaq 100 15-minute chart read 11.2251. The model projected the next 30 bars from that point. The window ran to 11:30 PM ET and has since closed, so the projection and the outcome can be placed side by side.

What was projected

11.3715.7320.08Sep 8, 4:15 PM ET11:30 PM ET
Projected Directional Movement (ADX) path, 30 bars from 4:15 PM ET. Dashed line marks the reading at the start of the window.

What actually printed

11.3715.7320.08Sep 8, 4:15 PM ET11:30 PM ET
Recorded Directional Movement (ADX) values over the same 30 bars.

The two paths, side by side

Reading at 4:15 PM ET11.2251
Projected value at 11:30 PM ET18.6083
Actual value at 11:30 PM ET20.649
Projected change across the window+7.38313
Actual change across the window+9.42385
Bars moving the same direction18 of 29
Bars on the projected side of the opening reading24 of 30
Projected move relative to actual0.78×

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 0.78 times the realised distance. Bar to bar, 62% of the moves ran the same way as the projection, and 24 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 23 (9:45 PM ET), where they sat 0.085157 apart, and furthest at bar 15 (8:00 PM ET) with a gap of 4.6521. The largest single-bar change in the recorded values came at bar 26 (10:45 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
14:30 PM12.392111.5047-0.887403
65:45 PM14.207510.8059-3.4016
127:15 PM16.376313.2126-3.16366
188:45 PM17.580214.3829-3.19728
2410:15 PM17.993118.3171+0.323968
2911:30 PM18.608320.649+2.04072

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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