Directional Movement (ADX) prediction 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.

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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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