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

Educational reference. Data covers September 16, 2026, 2:29 PM to 4:54 PM ET. This window has closed; every value below already printed.

On September 16, 2026 at 2:29 PM ET, Directional Movement (ADX) on the E-mini Nasdaq 100 5-minute chart read 12.5629. The model projected the next 30 bars from that point. The window ran to 4:54 PM ET and has since closed, so the projection and the outcome can be placed side by side.

What was projected

12.1317.0121.89Sep 16, 2:29 PM ET4:54 PM ET
Projected Directional Movement (ADX) path, 30 bars from 2:29 PM ET. Dashed line marks the reading at the start of the window.

What actually printed

12.1317.0121.89Sep 16, 2:29 PM ET4:54 PM ET
Recorded Directional Movement (ADX) values over the same 30 bars.

The two paths, side by side

Reading at 2:29 PM ET12.5629
Projected value at 4:54 PM ET22.548
Actual value at 4:54 PM ET22.4262
Projected change across the window+9.98512
Actual change across the window+9.86334
Bars moving the same direction21 of 29
Bars on the projected side of the opening reading20 of 30
Projected move relative to actual1.01×

Reading this window

The projection called for Directional Movement (ADX) to rise across the window, and it rose. The two moves were close in size: the projection covered 1.01 times the distance the market actually travelled. Bar to bar, 72% of the moves ran the same way as the projection, and 20 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 30 (4:54 PM ET), where they sat 0.121788 apart, and furthest at bar 11 (3:24 PM ET) with a gap of 7.44133. The largest single-bar change in the recorded values came at bar 17 (3:54 PM ET), a move of +1.09308. The projected path stayed on one side of the recorded values for the whole 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
12:34 PM14.026312.0793-1.94697
62:59 PM17.256612.7793-4.47732
123:29 PM20.016712.7309-7.28581
183:59 PM21.943617.2626-4.68103
244:29 PM22.159321.1514-1.00797
294:54 PM22.54822.4262-0.121788

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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