Directional Movement (ADX) forecast vs outcome — E-mini Nasdaq 100, 2-minute chart, September 30, 2026

Educational reference. Data covers September 30, 2026, 3:20 AM to 4:18 AM ET. This window has closed; every value below already printed.

On September 30, 2026 at 3:20 AM ET, Directional Movement (ADX) on the E-mini Nasdaq 100 2-minute chart read 21.9668. The model projected the next 30 bars from that point. The window ran to 4:18 AM ET and has since closed, so the projection and the outcome can be placed side by side.

What was projected

22.7928.935.01Sep 30, 3:20 AM ET4:18 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

22.7928.935.01Sep 30, 3:20 AM ET4:18 AM ET
Recorded Directional Movement (ADX) values over the same 30 bars.

The two paths, side by side

Reading at 3:20 AM ET21.9668
Projected value at 4:18 AM ET27.5703
Actual value at 4:18 AM ET26.467
Projected change across the window+5.60347
Actual change across the window+4.50024
Bars moving the same direction22 of 29
Bars on the projected side of the opening reading29 of 30
Projected move relative to actual1.25×

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 1.25 times the distance the market actually travelled. Bar to bar, 76% 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 18 (3:54 AM ET), where they sat 0.0613957 apart, and furthest at bar 3 (3:26 AM ET) with a gap of 7.95246. The largest single-bar change in the recorded values came at bar 12 (3:44 AM ET), a move of +2.46455. 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
13:22 AM29.506422.9921-6.51424
63:32 AM34.726328.2859-6.44036
123:44 AM35.609134.5946-1.01445
183:56 AM32.31532.1639-0.151001
244:08 AM29.592625.3787-4.21388
294:18 AM27.570326.467-1.10323

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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