Directional Movement (ADX) forecast vs outcome — E-mini Nasdaq 100, 5-minute chart, September 16, 2026

Educational reference. Data covers September 16, 2026, 10:24 AM to 12:49 PM ET. This window has closed; every value below already printed.

On September 16, 2026 at 10:24 AM ET, Directional Movement (ADX) on the E-mini Nasdaq 100 5-minute chart read 39.4076. The model projected the next 30 bars from that point. The window ran to 12:49 PM ET and has since closed, so the projection and the outcome can be placed side by side.

What was projected

20.4929.9939.5Sep 16, 10:24 AM ET12:49 PM ET
Projected Directional Movement (ADX) path, 30 bars from 10:24 AM ET. Dashed line marks the reading at the start of the window.

What actually printed

20.4929.9939.5Sep 16, 10:24 AM ET12:49 PM ET
Recorded Directional Movement (ADX) values over the same 30 bars.

The two paths, side by side

Reading at 10:24 AM ET39.4076
Projected value at 12:49 PM ET21.7672
Actual value at 12:49 PM ET29.5753
Projected change across the window-17.6404
Actual change across the window-9.83225
Bars moving the same direction18 of 29
Bars on the projected side of the opening reading24 of 30
Projected move relative to actual1.79×

Reading this window

The projection called for Directional Movement (ADX) to fall across the window, and it fell. The projection overshot: it called for 1.79 times the distance the market actually travelled. Bar to bar, 62% of the moves ran the same way as the projection, and 24 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 23 (12:14 PM ET), where they sat 0.14818 apart, and furthest at bar 6 (10:54 AM ET) with a gap of 14.6757. The largest single-bar change in the recorded values came at bar 10 (11:14 AM ET), a move of -2.22547. 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
110:29 AM27.203439.8939+12.6905
610:54 AM25.388140.0639+14.6757
1211:24 AM23.535927.9044+4.3685
1811:54 AM22.533419.217-3.31641
2412:24 PM21.891422.4853+0.593956
2912:49 PM21.767229.5753+7.80814

About Directional Movement (ADX) on a 5-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 5-minute timeframe a 30-bar projection covers 2.5 hours of trading, so the window above describes 2.5 hours of E-mini Nasdaq 100 activity rather than a single print.

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