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

Educational reference. Data covers October 1, 2026, 8:49 AM to 9:18 AM ET. This window has closed; every value below already printed.

On October 1, 2026 at 8:49 AM ET, Directional Movement (ADX) on the Micro E-mini Nasdaq 100 1-minute chart read 16.8139. The model projected the next 30 bars from that point. The window ran to 9:18 AM ET and has since closed, so the projection and the outcome can be placed side by side.

What was projected

16.922.2927.68Oct 1, 8:49 AM ET9:18 AM ET
Projected Directional Movement (ADX) path, 30 bars from 8:49 AM ET. Dashed line marks the reading at the start of the window.

What actually printed

16.922.2927.68Oct 1, 8:49 AM ET9:18 AM ET
Recorded Directional Movement (ADX) values over the same 30 bars.

The two paths, side by side

Reading at 8:49 AM ET16.8139
Projected value at 9:18 AM ET21.4625
Actual value at 9:18 AM ET23.7703
Projected change across the window+4.64859
Actual change across the window+6.95642
Bars moving the same direction20 of 29
Bars on the projected side of the opening reading28 of 30
Projected move relative to actual0.67×

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 0.67 times the realised distance. Bar to bar, 69% of the moves ran the same way as the projection, and 28 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 (8:49 AM ET), where they sat 0.635224 apart, and furthest at bar 16 (9:05 AM ET) with a gap of 8.55697. The largest single-bar change in the recorded values came at bar 23 (9:12 AM ET), a move of +1.41012. The projected path stayed on one side of the recorded values for the whole 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
18:50 AM16.46117.1614+0.700404
68:55 AM17.397919.7814+2.3835
129:01 AM18.898825.4315+6.53268
189:07 AM20.192126.1748+5.9827
249:13 AM20.653126.3182+5.66503
299:18 AM21.462523.7703+2.30783

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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