Average True Range prediction vs outcome — Micro E mini Nasdaq 100, 59 minute chart, September 22, 2026

Educational reference. Data covers September 22, 2026, 11:42 AM to 4:13 PM ET. This window has closed; every value below already printed.

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On September 22, 2026 at 11:42 AM ET, Average True Range on the Micro E mini Nasdaq 100 59 minute chart read 9.71227. The model projected the next 30 bars from that point. The window ran to 4:13 PM ET and has since closed, so the projection and the outcome can be placed side by side.

What was projected

9.06811.2213.37Sep 22, 11:42 AM ET4:13 PM ET
Projected Average True Range path, 30 bars from 11:42 AM ET. Dashed line marks the reading at the start of the window.

What actually printed

9.06811.2213.37Sep 22, 11:42 AM ET4:13 PM ET
Recorded Average True Range values over the same 30 bars.

The two paths, side by side

Reading at 11:42 AM ET9.71227
Projected value at 4:13 PM ET13.6561
Actual value at 4:13 PM ET12.7307
Projected change across the window+3.94385
Actual change across the window+3.01847
Bars moving the same direction23 of 29
Bars on the projected side of the opening reading21 of 30
Projected move relative to actual1.31×

Reading this window

The projection called for Average True Range 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, 79% of the moves ran the same way as the projection, and 21 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 (4:13 PM ET), where they sat 0.925384 apart, and furthest at bar 4 (3:38 PM ET) with a gap of 4.06266. The largest single bar change in the recorded values came at bar 3 (2:39 PM ET), a move of -1.10396. 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
112:41 PM12.77069.95936-2.81124
65:36 PM12.91899.10883-3.81003
1211:30 PM13.167810.3139-2.85387
185:24 AM13.389110.3177-3.07141
2411:18 AM13.562311.5317-2.03052
294:13 PM13.656112.7307-0.925384

About Average True Range on a 59 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 59 minute timeframe a 30 bar projection covers 29.5 hours of trading, so the window above describes 29.5 hours of Micro E mini Nasdaq 100 activity rather than a single print.

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