MACD forecast vs outcome — BTCUSD, 1-minute chart, September 4, 2026

Educational reference. Data covers September 4, 2026, 5:44 PM to 6:13 PM ET. This window has closed; every value below already printed.

On September 4, 2026 at 5:44 PM ET, MACD on the BTCUSD 1-minute chart read -323.685. The model projected the next 30 bars from that point. The window ran to 6:13 PM ET and has since closed, so the projection and the outcome can be placed side by side.

What was projected

-380.3-193.4-6.486Sep 4, 5:44 PM ET6:13 PM ET
Projected MACD path, 30 bars from 5:44 PM ET. Dashed line marks the reading at the start of the window.

What actually printed

-380.3-193.4-6.486Sep 4, 5:44 PM ET6:13 PM ET
Recorded MACD values over the same 30 bars.

The two paths, side by side

Reading at 5:44 PM ET-323.685
Projected value at 6:13 PM ET-1.35213
Actual value at 6:13 PM ET-15.0557
Projected change across the window+322.333
Actual change across the window+308.629
Bars moving the same direction18 of 29
Bars on the projected side of the opening reading21 of 30
Projected move relative to actual1.04×

Reading this window

The projection called for MACD to rise across the window, and it rose. The two moves were close in size: the projection covered 1.04 times the distance the market actually travelled. Bar to bar, 62% 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 19 (6:02 PM ET), where they sat 1.5691 apart, and furthest at bar 6 (5:50 PM ET) with a gap of 398.436. The largest single-bar change in the recorded values came at bar 15 (5:59 PM ET), a move of +84.8266. 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
15:45 PM-1.92093-321.193-319.272
65:50 PM-6.97931-405.415-398.436
125:56 PM-7.19848-215.104-207.906
186:02 PM-4.36243-2.79333+1.5691
246:08 PM-2.26092-20.2625-18.0016
296:13 PM-1.35213-15.0557-13.7036

About MACD on a 1-minute chart

MACD tracks the distance between two exponential moving averages of price; the line above moves as that distance widens or narrows. On the 1-minute timeframe a 30-bar projection covers 30 minutes of trading, so the window above describes 30 minutes of BTCUSD activity rather than a single print.

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