Average True Range prediction vs outcome — E mini Nasdaq 100, 5 minute chart, October 8, 2026

Educational reference. Data covers October 8, 2026, 11:38 AM to 2:03 PM ET. This window has closed; every value below already printed.

On October 8, 2026 at 11:38 AM ET, Average True Range on the E mini Nasdaq 100 5 minute chart read 25.5488. The model projected the next 30 bars from that point. The window ran to 2:03 PM ET and has since closed, so the projection and the outcome can be placed side by side.

What was projected

26.3432.2538.16Oct 8, 11:38 AM ET2:03 PM ET
Projected Average True Range path, 30 bars from 11:38 AM ET. Dashed line marks the reading at the start of the window.

What actually printed

26.3432.2538.16Oct 8, 11:38 AM ET2:03 PM ET
Recorded Average True Range values over the same 30 bars.

The two paths, side by side

Reading at 11:38 AM ET25.5488
Projected value at 2:03 PM ET38.9496
Actual value at 2:03 PM ET35.8363
Projected change across the window+13.4008
Actual change across the window+10.2875
Bars moving the same direction22 of 29
Bars on the projected side of the opening reading29 of 30
Projected move relative to actual1.30×

Reading this window

The projection called for Average True Range to rise across the window, and it rose. The projection overshot: it called for 1.30 times the distance the market actually travelled. Bar to bar, 76% 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 27 (1:48 PM ET), where they sat 1.20763 apart, and furthest at bar 0 (11:38 AM ET) with a gap of 7.14015. The largest single bar change in the recorded values came at bar 15 (12:53 PM ET), a move of +1.29363. 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
111:43 AM33.168726.1872-6.98146
612:08 PM34.915630.4375-4.47801
1212:38 PM36.566733.2467-3.31998
181:08 PM37.707234.928-2.77917
241:38 PM38.386936.8161-1.5708
292:03 PM38.949635.8363-3.11334

About Average True Range on a 5 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 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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