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

Educational reference. Data covers September 5, 2026, 4:05 PM to 4:34 PM ET. This window has closed; every value below already printed.

On September 5, 2026 at 4:05 PM ET, MACD on the BTCUSD 1-minute chart read -23.5697. The model projected the next 30 bars from that point. The window ran to 4:34 PM ET and has since closed, so the projection and the outcome can be placed side by side.

What was projected

-28.66-8.98110.7Sep 5, 4:05 PM ET4:34 PM ET
Projected MACD path, 30 bars from 4:05 PM ET. Dashed line marks the reading at the start of the window.

What actually printed

-28.66-8.98110.7Sep 5, 4:05 PM ET4:34 PM ET
Recorded MACD values over the same 30 bars.

The two paths, side by side

Reading at 4:05 PM ET-23.5697
Projected value at 4:34 PM ET-4.01409
Actual value at 4:34 PM ET13.3457
Projected change across the window+19.5556
Actual change across the window+36.9154
Bars moving the same direction19 of 29
Bars on the projected side of the opening reading29 of 30
Projected move relative to actual0.53×

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 0.53 times the realised distance. Bar to bar, 66% 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 21 (4:25 PM ET), where they sat 0.0570525 apart, and furthest at bar 29 (4:34 PM ET) with a gap of 17.3598. The largest single-bar change in the recorded values came at bar 10 (4:15 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
14:06 PM-31.3072-24.3783+6.92893
64:11 PM-27.158-26.8989+0.259101
124:17 PM-19.1332-13.2291+5.90409
184:23 PM-12.3771-10.5754+1.80167
244:29 PM-7.235225.37427+12.6095
294:34 PM-4.0140913.3457+17.3598

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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