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

Educational reference. Data covers September 16, 2026, 10:29 AM to 12:54 PM ET. This window has closed; every value below already printed.

On September 16, 2026 at 10:29 AM ET, Directional Movement (ADX) on the E-mini Nasdaq 100 5-minute chart read 39.4282. The model projected the next 30 bars from that point. The window ran to 12:54 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, 10:29 AM ET12:54 PM ET
Projected Directional Movement (ADX) path, 30 bars from 10:29 AM ET. Dashed line marks the reading at the start of the window.

What actually printed

20.4929.9939.5Sep 16, 10:29 AM ET12:54 PM ET
Recorded Directional Movement (ADX) values over the same 30 bars.

The two paths, side by side

Reading at 10:29 AM ET39.4282
Projected value at 12:54 PM ET23.9169
Actual value at 12:54 PM ET28.3987
Projected change across the window-15.5112
Actual change across the window-11.0295
Bars moving the same direction18 of 29
Bars on the projected side of the opening reading24 of 30
Projected move relative to actual1.41×

Reading this window

The projection called for Directional Movement (ADX) to fall across the window, and it fell. The projection overshot: it called for 1.41 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 27 (12:39 PM ET), where they sat 0.0630221 apart, and furthest at bar 5 (10:54 AM ET) with a gap of 15.8036. The largest single-bar change in the recorded values came at bar 11 (11:24 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
110:34 AM26.386139.4076+13.0214
610:59 AM24.685340.4375+15.7522
1211:29 AM24.146930.0259+5.879
1811:59 AM23.948419.4188-4.52962
2412:29 PM23.882722.6705-1.21212
2912:54 PM23.916928.3987+4.48176

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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