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

Educational reference. Data covers September 21, 2026, 1:15 PM to 1:44 PM ET. This window has closed; every value below already printed.

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On September 21, 2026 at 1:15 PM ET, Directional Movement (ADX) on the E mini Nasdaq 100 1 minute chart read 12.2623. The model projected the next 30 bars from that point. The window ran to 1:44 PM ET and has since closed, so the projection and the outcome can be placed side by side.

What was projected

12.8218.2823.73Sep 21, 1:15 PM ET1:44 PM ET
Projected Directional Movement (ADX) path, 30 bars from 1:15 PM ET. Dashed line marks the reading at the start of the window.

What actually printed

12.8218.2823.73Sep 21, 1:15 PM ET1:44 PM ET
Recorded Directional Movement (ADX) values over the same 30 bars.

The two paths, side by side

Reading at 1:15 PM ET12.2623
Projected value at 1:44 PM ET23.3722
Actual value at 1:44 PM ET24.4666
Projected change across the window+11.1099
Actual change across the window+12.2044
Bars moving the same direction18 of 29
Bars on the projected side of the opening reading27 of 30
Projected move relative to actual0.91×

Reading this window

The projection called for Directional Movement (ADX) to rise across the window, and it rose. The two moves were close in size: the projection covered 0.91 times the distance the market actually travelled. Bar to bar, 62% of the moves ran the same way as the projection, and 27 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 29 (1:43 PM ET), where they sat 0.0634903 apart, and furthest at bar 20 (1:35 PM ET) with a gap of 7.42784. The largest single bar change in the recorded values came at bar 28 (1:43 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
11:16 PM14.69212.6874-2.0046
61:21 PM17.129112.8187-4.31041
121:27 PM20.450515.7154-4.73514
181:33 PM21.98715.4023-6.5847
241:39 PM22.57717.6037-4.97337
291:44 PM23.372224.4666+1.09447

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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