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

Educational reference. Data covers September 21, 2026, 1:49 PM to 2:18 PM ET. This window has closed; every value below already printed.

On September 21, 2026 at 1:49 PM ET, Directional Movement (ADX) on the E-mini Nasdaq 100 1-minute chart read 49.1. The model projected the next 30 bars from that point. The window ran to 2:18 PM ET and has since closed, so the projection and the outcome can be placed side by side.

What was projected

13.8930.3946.88Sep 21, 1:49 PM ET2:18 PM ET
Projected Directional Movement (ADX) path, 30 bars from 1:49 PM ET. Dashed line marks the reading at the start of the window.

What actually printed

13.8930.3946.88Sep 21, 1:49 PM ET2:18 PM ET
Recorded Directional Movement (ADX) values over the same 30 bars.

The two paths, side by side

Reading at 1:49 PM ET49.1
Projected value at 2:18 PM ET23.4736
Actual value at 2:18 PM ET11.6707
Projected change across the window-25.6264
Actual change across the window-37.4292
Bars moving the same direction18 of 29
Bars on the projected side of the opening reading30 of 30
Projected move relative to actual0.68×

Reading this window

The projection called for Directional Movement (ADX) to fall across the window, and it fell. The market travelled further than projected — the projection covered only 0.68 times the realised distance. Bar to bar, 62% 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 13 (2:01 PM ET), where they sat 0.395879 apart, and furthest at bar 0 (1:49 PM ET) with a gap of 24.6549. The largest single-bar change in the recorded values came at bar 5 (1:54 PM ET), a move of -2.58612. 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
11:50 PM24.247647.4035+23.1559
61:55 PM23.609936.1116+12.5017
122:01 PM23.330123.726+0.395879
182:07 PM23.341218.195-5.14619
242:13 PM23.46218.4235-5.03851
292:18 PM23.473611.6707-11.8029

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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