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

Educational reference. Data covers September 16, 2026, 2:11 PM to 4:36 PM ET. This window has closed; every value below already printed.

On September 16, 2026 at 2:11 PM ET, Directional Movement (ADX) on the E-mini Nasdaq 100 5-minute chart read 11.4795. The model projected the next 30 bars from that point. The window ran to 4:36 PM ET and has since closed, so the projection and the outcome can be placed side by side.

What was projected

12.3618.8825.41Sep 16, 2:11 PM ET4:36 PM ET
Projected Directional Movement (ADX) path, 30 bars from 2:11 PM ET. Dashed line marks the reading at the start of the window.

What actually printed

12.3618.8825.41Sep 16, 2:11 PM ET4:36 PM ET
Recorded Directional Movement (ADX) values over the same 30 bars.

The two paths, side by side

Reading at 2:11 PM ET11.4795
Projected value at 4:36 PM ET20.35
Actual value at 4:36 PM ET26.2817
Projected change across the window+8.87052
Actual change across the window+14.8022
Bars moving the same direction26 of 29
Bars on the projected side of the opening reading29 of 30
Projected move relative to actual0.60×

Reading this window

The projection called for Directional Movement (ADX) to rise across the window, and it rose. The market travelled further than projected — the projection covered only 0.60 times the realised distance. Bar to bar, 90% 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 16 (3:26 PM ET), where they sat 0.0280174 apart, and furthest at bar 29 (4:36 PM ET) with a gap of 5.93166. The largest single-bar change in the recorded values came at bar 29 (4:36 PM ET), a move of +1.69935. 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
12:16 PM13.10511.5681-1.53692
62:41 PM14.187611.8168-2.37079
123:11 PM16.278314.8436-1.43466
183:41 PM18.102619.3009+1.19827
244:11 PM19.771121.5994+1.82824
294:36 PM20.3526.2817+5.93166

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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