Directional Movement (ADX) prediction vs outcome — E mini Nasdaq 100, 5 minute chart, October 12, 2026

Educational reference. Data covers October 12, 2026, 10:15 AM to 12:40 PM ET. This window has closed; every value below already printed.

On October 12, 2026 at 10:15 AM ET, Directional Movement (ADX) on the E mini Nasdaq 100 5 minute chart read 32.5367. The model projected the next 30 bars from that point. The window ran to 12:40 PM ET and has since closed, so the projection and the outcome can be placed side by side.

What was projected

19.1530.8542.56Oct 12, 10:15 AM ET12:40 PM ET
Projected Directional Movement (ADX) path, 30 bars from 10:15 AM ET. Dashed line marks the reading at the start of the window.

What actually printed

19.1530.8542.56Oct 12, 10:15 AM ET12:40 PM ET
Recorded Directional Movement (ADX) values over the same 30 bars.

The two paths, side by side

Reading at 10:15 AM ET32.5367
Projected value at 12:40 PM ET19.8715
Actual value at 12:40 PM ET24.9069
Projected change across the window-12.6652
Actual change across the window-7.62981
Bars moving the same direction18 of 29
Bars on the projected side of the opening reading27 of 30
Projected move relative to actual1.66×

Reading this window

The projection called for Directional Movement (ADX) to fall across the window, and it fell. The projection overshot: it called for 1.66 times the distance the market actually travelled. Bar to bar, 62% of the moves ran the same way as the projection, and 27 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 25 (12:15 PM ET), where they sat 0.227198 apart, and furthest at bar 8 (10:55 AM ET) with a gap of 6.89359. The largest single bar change in the recorded values came at bar 19 (11:50 AM ET), a move of -2.71205. The projected and recorded paths crossed at least once inside the 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
110:20 AM36.630833.4596-3.17124
610:45 AM43.506837.2671-6.23967
1211:15 AM38.276337.7697-0.506632
1811:45 AM28.943728.1512-0.792495
2412:15 PM20.912520.6853-0.227198
2912:40 PM19.871524.9069+5.0354

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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