Directional Movement (ADX) forecast vs outcome — E-mini Nasdaq 100, 1-minute chart, September 16, 2026

Educational reference. Data covers September 16, 2026, 3:18 AM to 3:47 AM ET. This window has closed; every value below already printed.

On September 16, 2026 at 3:18 AM ET, Directional Movement (ADX) on the E-mini Nasdaq 100 1-minute chart read 38.3963. The model projected the next 30 bars from that point. The window ran to 3:47 AM ET and has since closed, so the projection and the outcome can be placed side by side.

What was projected

17.1927.7338.27Sep 16, 3:18 AM ET3:47 AM ET
Projected Directional Movement (ADX) path, 30 bars from 3:18 AM ET. Dashed line marks the reading at the start of the window.

What actually printed

17.1927.7338.27Sep 16, 3:18 AM ET3:47 AM ET
Recorded Directional Movement (ADX) values over the same 30 bars.

The two paths, side by side

Reading at 3:18 AM ET38.3963
Projected value at 3:47 AM ET16.6095
Actual value at 3:47 AM ET22.6715
Projected change across the window-21.7869
Actual change across the window-15.7248
Bars moving the same direction18 of 29
Bars on the projected side of the opening reading26 of 30
Projected move relative to actual1.39×

Reading this window

The projection called for Directional Movement (ADX) to fall across the window, and it fell. The projection overshot: it called for 1.39 times the distance the market actually travelled. Bar to bar, 62% 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 25 (3:42 AM ET), where they sat 2.8368 apart, and furthest at bar 6 (3:24 AM ET) with a gap of 22.54. The largest single-bar change in the recorded values came at bar 12 (3:30 AM ET), a move of -2.36204. 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
13:19 AM20.181137.1794+16.9983
63:24 AM17.150339.6903+22.54
123:30 AM16.002929.5898+13.5869
183:36 AM15.772922.1408+6.36792
243:42 AM16.160318.9971+2.8368
293:47 AM16.609522.6715+6.06204

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 E-mini Nasdaq 100 activity rather than a single print.

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