Directional Movement (ADX) forecast 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.

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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