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

Educational reference. Data covers September 16, 2026, 6:19 PM to 8:44 PM ET. This window has closed; every value below already printed.

On September 16, 2026 at 6:19 PM ET, Directional Movement (ADX) on the E-mini Nasdaq 100 5-minute chart read 9.81115. The model projected the next 30 bars from that point. The window ran to 8:44 PM ET and has since closed, so the projection and the outcome can be placed side by side.

What was projected

10.5315.9121.29Sep 16, 6:19 PM ET8:44 PM ET
Projected Directional Movement (ADX) path, 30 bars from 6:19 PM ET. Dashed line marks the reading at the start of the window.

What actually printed

10.5315.9121.29Sep 16, 6:19 PM ET8:44 PM ET
Recorded Directional Movement (ADX) values over the same 30 bars.

The two paths, side by side

Reading at 6:19 PM ET9.81115
Projected value at 8:44 PM ET22.012
Actual value at 8:44 PM ET19.0979
Projected change across the window+12.2008
Actual change across the window+9.28679
Bars moving the same direction19 of 29
Bars on the projected side of the opening reading29 of 30
Projected move relative to actual1.31×

Reading this window

The projection called for Directional Movement (ADX) to rise across the window, and it rose. The projection overshot: it called for 1.31 times the distance the market actually travelled. Bar to bar, 66% 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 30 (8:44 PM ET), where they sat 2.91403 apart, and furthest at bar 0 (6:19 PM ET) with a gap of 8.39888. The largest single-bar change in the recorded values came at bar 29 (8:44 PM ET), a move of +0.903816. 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
16:24 PM17.794710.47-7.32463
66:49 PM17.177412.4668-4.7106
127:19 PM18.047412.7161-5.33123
187:49 PM19.531814.0058-5.52597
248:19 PM20.979616.7021-4.27744
298:44 PM22.01219.0979-2.91403

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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