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

Educational reference. Data covers September 30, 2026, 3:21 AM to 4:19 AM ET. This window has closed; every value below already printed.

On September 30, 2026 at 3:21 AM ET, Directional Movement (ADX) on the E-mini Nasdaq 100 2-minute chart read 20.8294. The model projected the next 30 bars from that point. The window ran to 4:19 AM ET and has since closed, so the projection and the outcome can be placed side by side.

What was projected

21.7228.3334.94Sep 30, 3:21 AM ET4:19 AM ET
Projected Directional Movement (ADX) path, 30 bars from 3:21 AM ET. Dashed line marks the reading at the start of the window.

What actually printed

21.7228.3334.94Sep 30, 3:21 AM ET4:19 AM ET
Recorded Directional Movement (ADX) values over the same 30 bars.

The two paths, side by side

Reading at 3:21 AM ET20.8294
Projected value at 4:19 AM ET27.5703
Actual value at 4:19 AM ET26.2016
Projected change across the window+6.74085
Actual change across the window+5.37216
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 projection overshot: it called for 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 21 (4:01 AM ET), where they sat 0.127909 apart, and furthest at bar 4 (3:29 AM ET) with a gap of 8.93832. The largest single-bar change in the recorded values came at bar 13 (3:47 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
13:23 AM29.506421.9668-7.53955
63:33 AM34.726326.9943-7.73205
123:45 AM35.609132.1301-3.479
183:57 AM32.31532.6608+0.345808
244:09 AM29.592626.7653-2.82728
294:19 AM27.570326.2016-1.36869

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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