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

Educational reference. Data covers September 5, 2026, 4:46 PM to 5:15 PM ET. This window has closed; every value below already printed.

On September 5, 2026 at 4:46 PM ET, MACD on the BTCUSD 1-minute chart read 15.1358. The model projected the next 30 bars from that point. The window ran to 5:15 PM ET and has since closed, so the projection and the outcome can be placed side by side.

What was projected

3.51411.2819.04Sep 5, 4:46 PM ET5:15 PM ET
Projected MACD path, 30 bars from 4:46 PM ET. Dashed line marks the reading at the start of the window.

What actually printed

3.51411.2819.04Sep 5, 4:46 PM ET5:15 PM ET
Recorded MACD values over the same 30 bars.

The two paths, side by side

Reading at 4:46 PM ET15.1358
Projected value at 5:15 PM ET2.84236
Actual value at 5:15 PM ET3.34243
Projected change across the window-12.2935
Actual change across the window-11.7934
Bars moving the same direction18 of 29
Bars on the projected side of the opening reading20 of 30
Projected move relative to actual1.04×

Reading this window

The projection called for MACD to fall across the window, and it fell. 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 20 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 15 (5:00 PM ET), where they sat 0.00350157 apart, and furthest at bar 4 (4:50 PM ET) with a gap of 15.283. The largest single-bar change in the recorded values came at bar 14 (5:00 PM ET), a move of -4.10254. 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
14:47 PM3.3736115.198+11.8243
64:52 PM5.0395419.0277+13.9882
124:58 PM5.0701211.3058+6.23566
185:04 PM3.808465.45696+1.6485
245:10 PM3.420474.33591+0.915432
295:15 PM2.842363.34243+0.500068

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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