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

Educational reference. Data covers September 16, 2026, 6:13 PM to 8:38 PM ET. This window has closed; every value below already printed.

On September 16, 2026 at 6:13 PM ET, Directional Movement (ADX) on the E-mini Nasdaq 100 5-minute chart read 11.1796. The model projected the next 30 bars from that point. The window ran to 8:38 PM ET and has since closed, so the projection and the outcome can be placed side by side.

What was projected

11.7315.8119.9Sep 16, 6:13 PM ET8:38 PM ET
Projected Directional Movement (ADX) path, 30 bars from 6:13 PM ET. Dashed line marks the reading at the start of the window.

What actually printed

11.7315.8119.9Sep 16, 6:13 PM ET8:38 PM ET
Recorded Directional Movement (ADX) values over the same 30 bars.

The two paths, side by side

Reading at 6:13 PM ET11.1796
Projected value at 8:38 PM ET20.4014
Actual value at 8:38 PM ET17.1394
Projected change across the window+9.22177
Actual change across the window+5.95983
Bars moving the same direction18 of 29
Bars on the projected side of the opening reading29 of 30
Projected move relative to actual1.55×

Reading this window

The projection called for Directional Movement (ADX) to rise across the window, and it rose. The projection overshot: it called for 1.55 times the distance the market actually travelled. Bar to bar, 62% 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 28 (8:28 PM ET), where they sat 1.16373 apart, and furthest at bar 0 (6:13 PM ET) with a gap of 7.80783. The largest single-bar change in the recorded values came at bar 29 (8:38 PM ET), a move of -1.74541. 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
16:18 PM18.110711.7582-6.35251
66:43 PM16.833812.1144-4.71934
127:13 PM17.895213.8993-3.99587
187:43 PM18.455314.16-4.29529
248:13 PM19.833817.2828-2.551
298:38 PM20.401417.1394-3.26195

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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