Directional Movement (ADX) forecast vs outcome — E-mini Nasdaq 100, 1-minute chart, September 21, 2026

Educational reference. Data covers September 21, 2026, 1:12 PM to 1:41 PM ET. This window has closed; every value below already printed.

On September 21, 2026 at 1:12 PM ET, Directional Movement (ADX) on the E-mini Nasdaq 100 1-minute chart read 12.0868. The model projected the next 30 bars from that point. The window ran to 1:41 PM ET and has since closed, so the projection and the outcome can be placed side by side.

What was projected

12.8718.7224.57Sep 21, 1:12 PM ET1:41 PM ET
Projected Directional Movement (ADX) path, 30 bars from 1:12 PM ET. Dashed line marks the reading at the start of the window.

What actually printed

12.8718.7224.57Sep 21, 1:12 PM ET1:41 PM ET
Recorded Directional Movement (ADX) values over the same 30 bars.

The two paths, side by side

Reading at 1:12 PM ET12.0868
Projected value at 1:41 PM ET18.8218
Actual value at 1:41 PM ET24.4234
Projected change across the window+6.73494
Actual change across the window+12.3366
Bars moving the same direction19 of 29
Bars on the projected side of the opening reading29 of 30
Projected move relative to actual0.55×

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 0.55 times the realised distance. Bar to bar, 66% of the moves ran the same way as the projection, and 29 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 10 (1:21 PM ET), where they sat 0.324903 apart, and furthest at bar 27 (1:39 PM ET) with a gap of 6.60678. The largest single-bar change in the recorded values came at bar 25 (1:37 PM ET), a move of +1.52754. 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
11:13 PM13.433412.329-1.10442
61:18 PM14.905313.6227-1.28261
121:24 PM16.768917.224+0.455105
181:30 PM17.787615.4296-2.35805
241:36 PM18.53621.6447+3.10867
291:41 PM18.821824.4234+5.60167

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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