Directional Movement (ADX) forecast vs outcome — Micro E-mini Nasdaq 100, 1-minute chart, September 3, 2026

Educational reference. Data covers September 3, 2026, 4:31 PM to 5:00 PM ET. This window has closed; every value below already printed.

On September 3, 2026 at 4:31 PM ET, Directional Movement (ADX) on the Micro E-mini Nasdaq 100 1-minute chart read 18.2962. The model projected the next 30 bars from that point. The window ran to 5:00 PM ET and has since closed, so the projection and the outcome can be placed side by side.

What was projected

13.5516.0818.6Sep 3, 4:31 PM ET5:00 PM ET
Projected Directional Movement (ADX) path, 30 bars from 4:31 PM ET. Dashed line marks the reading at the start of the window.

What actually printed

13.5516.0818.6Sep 3, 4:31 PM ET5:00 PM ET
Recorded Directional Movement (ADX) values over the same 30 bars.

The two paths, side by side

Reading at 4:31 PM ET18.2962
Projected value at 5:00 PM ET17.9726
Actual value at 5:00 PM ET18.9395
Projected change across the window-0.323595
Actual change across the window+0.643356
Bars moving the same direction18 of 29
Bars on the projected side of the opening reading27 of 30
Projected move relative to actual0.50×

Reading this window

The projection called for Directional Movement (ADX) to fall, while it rose instead. The market travelled further than projected — the projection covered only 0.50 times the realised distance. Bar to bar, 62% of the moves ran the same way as the projection, and 27 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 1 (4:31 PM ET), where they sat 0.0285199 apart, and furthest at bar 7 (4:38 PM ET) with a gap of 4.75861. The largest single-bar change in the recorded values came at bar 5 (4:36 PM ET), a move of -1.21694. 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
14:32 PM18.043817.94-0.103771
64:37 PM17.988613.256-4.73253
124:43 PM18.101513.6345-4.46698
184:49 PM18.233315.3066-2.92678
244:55 PM17.954917.221-0.733901
295:00 PM17.972618.9395+0.96695

About Directional Movement (ADX) on a 1-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 1-minute timeframe a 30-bar projection covers 30 minutes of trading, so the window above describes 30 minutes of Micro E-mini Nasdaq 100 activity rather than a single print.

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