MACD forecast vs outcome — BTCUSD, 1-minute chart, September 5, 2026

Educational reference. Data covers September 5, 2026, 4:03 PM to 4:32 PM ET. This window has closed; every value below already printed.

On September 5, 2026 at 4:03 PM ET, MACD on the BTCUSD 1-minute chart read -25.4274. The model projected the next 30 bars from that point. The window ran to 4:32 PM ET and has since closed, so the projection and the outcome can be placed side by side.

What was projected

-24.88-6.77611.33Sep 5, 4:03 PM ET4:32 PM ET
Projected MACD path, 30 bars from 4:03 PM ET. Dashed line marks the reading at the start of the window.

What actually printed

-24.88-6.77611.33Sep 5, 4:03 PM ET4:32 PM ET
Recorded MACD values over the same 30 bars.

The two paths, side by side

Reading at 4:03 PM ET-25.4274
Projected value at 4:32 PM ET-2.37714
Actual value at 4:32 PM ET13.7629
Projected change across the window+23.0502
Actual change across the window+39.1902
Bars moving the same direction21 of 29
Bars on the projected side of the opening reading28 of 30
Projected move relative to actual0.59×

Reading this window

The projection called for MACD to rise across the window, and it rose. The market travelled further than projected — the projection covered only 0.59 times the realised distance. Bar to bar, 72% of the moves ran the same way as the projection, and 28 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 4 (4:06 PM ET), where they sat 0.110049 apart, and furthest at bar 25 (4:28 PM ET) with a gap of 17.2851. The largest single-bar change in the recorded values came at bar 8 (4:11 PM ET), a move of +8.93431. 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
14:04 PM-27.0291-26.083+0.946099
64:09 PM-22.7414-20.7845+1.95689
124:15 PM-15.607-16.7864-1.17935
184:21 PM-10.0074-10.5904-0.582971
244:27 PM-6.149958.29611+14.4461
294:32 PM-2.3771413.7629+16.14

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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