Average True Range forecast vs outcome — Micro E-mini Nasdaq 100, 1-minute chart, October 2, 2026

Educational reference. Data covers October 2, 2026, 1:38 PM to 2:07 PM ET. This window has closed; every value below already printed.

On October 2, 2026 at 1:38 PM ET, Average True Range on the Micro E-mini Nasdaq 100 1-minute chart read 26.2087. The model projected the next 30 bars from that point. The window ran to 2:07 PM ET and has since closed, so the projection and the outcome can be placed side by side.

What was projected

14.8920.1925.5Oct 2, 1:38 PM ET2:07 PM ET
Projected Average True Range path, 30 bars from 1:38 PM ET. Dashed line marks the reading at the start of the window.

What actually printed

14.8920.1925.5Oct 2, 1:38 PM ET2:07 PM ET
Recorded Average True Range values over the same 30 bars.

The two paths, side by side

Reading at 1:38 PM ET26.2087
Projected value at 2:07 PM ET15.4312
Actual value at 2:07 PM ET17.9363
Projected change across the window-10.7775
Actual change across the window-8.27241
Bars moving the same direction18 of 29
Bars on the projected side of the opening reading30 of 30
Projected move relative to actual1.30×

Reading this window

The projection called for Average True Range to fall across the window, and it fell. The projection overshot: it called for 1.30 times the distance the market actually travelled. Bar to bar, 62% of the moves ran the same way as the projection, and 30 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 22 (1:59 PM ET), where they sat 0.032596 apart, and furthest at bar 0 (1:38 PM ET) with a gap of 10.6941. The largest single-bar change in the recorded values came at bar 9 (1:47 PM ET), a move of -3.28688. 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
11:39 PM15.491426.0324+10.541
61:44 PM15.456122.0522+6.59613
121:50 PM15.498515.0493-0.449218
181:56 PM15.532414.7127-0.81965
242:02 PM15.52216.2336+0.7116
292:07 PM15.431217.9363+2.5051

About Average True Range on a 1-minute chart

Average True Range measures how much ground a market covers per bar. It describes volatility, not direction, so a rising ATR means wider bars rather than higher prices. On the 1-minute timeframe a 30-bar projection covers 30 minutes of trading, so the window above describes 30 minutes of Micro E-mini Nasdaq 100 activity rather than a single print.

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