Directional Movement (ADX) prediction 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.

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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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