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

Educational reference. Data covers September 16, 2026, 3:20 AM to 3:49 AM ET. This window has closed; every value below already printed.

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On September 16, 2026 at 3:20 AM ET, Directional Movement (ADX) on the E mini Nasdaq 100 1 minute chart read 42.8935. The model projected the next 30 bars from that point. The window ran to 3:49 AM ET and has since closed, so the projection and the outcome can be placed side by side.

What was projected

20.330.8941.47Sep 16, 3:20 AM ET3:49 AM ET
Projected Directional Movement (ADX) path, 30 bars from 3:20 AM ET. Dashed line marks the reading at the start of the window.

What actually printed

20.330.8941.47Sep 16, 3:20 AM ET3:49 AM ET
Recorded Directional Movement (ADX) values over the same 30 bars.

The two paths, side by side

Reading at 3:20 AM ET42.8935
Projected value at 3:49 AM ET18.8782
Actual value at 3:49 AM ET19.752
Projected change across the window-24.0153
Actual change across the window-23.1414
Bars moving the same direction21 of 29
Bars on the projected side of the opening reading30 of 30
Projected move relative to actual1.04×

Reading this window

The projection called for Directional Movement (ADX) to fall across the window, and it fell. The two moves were close in size: the projection covered 1.04 times the distance the market actually travelled. Bar to bar, 72% of the moves ran the same way as the projection, and 30 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 28 (3:47 AM ET), where they sat 0.0108516 apart, and furthest at bar 0 (3:20 AM ET) with a gap of 19.9525. The largest single bar change in the recorded values came at bar 15 (3:35 AM ET), a move of -2.36204. 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
13:21 AM23.389641.1887+17.799
63:26 AM22.878537.2242+14.3457
123:32 AM20.960236.48+15.5198
183:38 AM19.926824.1316+4.20483
243:44 AM19.251520.4368+1.18529
293:49 AM18.878219.752+0.87388

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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