Directional Movement (ADX) prediction vs outcome — E mini Nasdaq 100, 2 minute chart, September 8, 2026

Educational reference. Data covers September 8, 2026, 8:54 AM to 9:52 AM ET. This window has closed; every value below already printed.

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On September 8, 2026 at 8:54 AM ET, Directional Movement (ADX) on the E mini Nasdaq 100 2 minute chart read 39.5983. The model projected the next 30 bars from that point. The window ran to 9:52 AM ET and has since closed, so the projection and the outcome can be placed side by side.

What was projected

24.7833.0641.34Sep 8, 8:54 AM ET9:52 AM ET
Projected Directional Movement (ADX) path, 30 bars from 8:54 AM ET. Dashed line marks the reading at the start of the window.

What actually printed

24.7833.0641.34Sep 8, 8:54 AM ET9:52 AM ET
Recorded Directional Movement (ADX) values over the same 30 bars.

The two paths, side by side

Reading at 8:54 AM ET39.5983
Projected value at 9:52 AM ET23.6681
Actual value at 9:52 AM ET28.8425
Projected change across the window-15.9302
Actual change across the window-10.7558
Bars moving the same direction21 of 29
Bars on the projected side of the opening reading20 of 30
Projected move relative to actual1.48×

Reading this window

The projection called for Directional Movement (ADX) to fall across the window, and it fell. The projection overshot: it called for 1.48 times the distance the market actually travelled. Bar to bar, 72% of the moves ran the same way as the projection, and 20 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 30 (9:52 AM ET), where they sat 5.17446 apart, and furthest at bar 7 (9:08 AM ET) with a gap of 13.9121. The largest single bar change in the recorded values came at bar 29 (9:52 AM ET), a move of -2.02745. The projected path stayed on one side of the recorded values for the whole 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
18:56 AM28.297739.6096+11.3119
69:06 AM28.564142.4548+13.8907
129:18 AM26.604138.8441+12.2399
189:30 AM25.287438.025+12.7376
249:42 AM24.545435.2854+10.74
299:52 AM23.668128.8425+5.17446

About Directional Movement (ADX) on a 2 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 2 minute timeframe a 30 bar projection covers 1 hours of trading, so the window above describes 1 hours of E mini Nasdaq 100 activity rather than a single print.

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