Directional Movement (ADX) forecast vs outcome — Micro E-mini Nasdaq 100, 1-minute chart, September 4, 2026

Educational reference. Data covers September 4, 2026, 8:30 AM to 8:59 AM ET. This window has closed; every value below already printed.

On September 4, 2026 at 8:30 AM ET, Directional Movement (ADX) on the Micro E-mini Nasdaq 100 1-minute chart read 15.0333. The model projected the next 30 bars from that point. The window ran to 8:59 AM ET and has since closed, so the projection and the outcome can be placed side by side.

What was projected

13.7220.6127.51Sep 4, 8:30 AM ET8:59 AM ET
Projected Directional Movement (ADX) path, 30 bars from 8:30 AM ET. Dashed line marks the reading at the start of the window.

What actually printed

13.7220.6127.51Sep 4, 8:30 AM ET8:59 AM ET
Recorded Directional Movement (ADX) values over the same 30 bars.

The two paths, side by side

Reading at 8:30 AM ET15.0333
Projected value at 8:59 AM ET23.9103
Actual value at 8:59 AM ET28.4406
Projected change across the window+8.87703
Actual change across the window+13.4073
Bars moving the same direction21 of 29
Bars on the projected side of the opening reading18 of 30
Projected move relative to actual0.66×

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 0.66 times the realised distance. Bar to bar, 72% of the moves ran the same way as the projection, and 18 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 24 (8:53 AM ET), where they sat 0.0664771 apart, and furthest at bar 1 (8:31 AM ET) with a gap of 9.22844. The largest single-bar change in the recorded values came at bar 27 (8:57 AM ET), a move of +1.87848. 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
18:31 AM23.774614.5462-9.22844
68:36 AM21.885213.0645-8.82068
128:42 AM22.471914.1311-8.34077
188:48 AM23.285519.4678-3.81778
248:54 AM23.47523.6349+0.159912
298:59 AM23.910328.4406+4.53029

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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