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

Educational reference. Data covers September 16, 2026, 6:27 PM to 8:52 PM ET. This window has closed; every value below already printed.

On September 16, 2026 at 6:27 PM ET, Directional Movement (ADX) on the E-mini Nasdaq 100 5-minute chart read 10.2806. The model projected the next 30 bars from that point. The window ran to 8:52 PM ET and has since closed, so the projection and the outcome can be placed side by side.

What was projected

10.5415.9421.33Sep 16, 6:27 PM ET8:52 PM ET
Projected Directional Movement (ADX) path, 30 bars from 6:27 PM ET. Dashed line marks the reading at the start of the window.

What actually printed

10.5415.9421.33Sep 16, 6:27 PM ET8:52 PM ET
Recorded Directional Movement (ADX) values over the same 30 bars.

The two paths, side by side

Reading at 6:27 PM ET10.2806
Projected value at 8:52 PM ET22.0599
Actual value at 8:52 PM ET18.1941
Projected change across the window+11.7793
Actual change across the window+7.9135
Bars moving the same direction20 of 29
Bars on the projected side of the opening reading28 of 30
Projected move relative to actual1.49×

Reading this window

The projection called for Directional Movement (ADX) to rise across the window, and it rose. The projection overshot: it called for 1.49 times the distance the market actually travelled. Bar to bar, 69% of the moves ran the same way as the projection, and 28 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 7 (6:57 PM ET), where they sat 3.69998 apart, and furthest at bar 21 (8:12 PM ET) with a gap of 6.76865. The largest single-bar change in the recorded values came at bar 25 (8:32 PM ET), a move of +0.873884. 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
16:32 PM16.06169.81115-6.25046
66:57 PM16.281212.5812-3.69998
127:27 PM18.438512.1818-6.25671
187:57 PM20.160213.5057-6.65449
248:27 PM21.366115.8282-5.53788
298:52 PM22.059918.1941-3.86576

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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