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

Educational reference. Data covers September 5, 2026, 4:47 PM to 5:16 PM ET. This window has closed; every value below already printed.

On September 5, 2026 at 4:47 PM ET, MACD on the BTCUSD 1-minute chart read 14.5246. The model projected the next 30 bars from that point. The window ran to 5:16 PM ET and has since closed, so the projection and the outcome can be placed side by side.

What was projected

2.43910.7118.97Sep 5, 4:47 PM ET5:16 PM ET
Projected MACD path, 30 bars from 4:47 PM ET. Dashed line marks the reading at the start of the window.

What actually printed

2.43910.7118.97Sep 5, 4:47 PM ET5:16 PM ET
Recorded MACD values over the same 30 bars.

The two paths, side by side

Reading at 4:47 PM ET14.5246
Projected value at 5:16 PM ET1.32915
Actual value at 5:16 PM ET3.48545
Projected change across the window-13.1954
Actual change across the window-11.0391
Bars moving the same direction18 of 29
Bars on the projected side of the opening reading19 of 30
Projected move relative to actual1.20×

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 1.20 times the distance the market actually travelled. Bar to bar, 62% of the moves ran the same way as the projection, and 19 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 29 (5:15 PM ET), where they sat 1.96776 apart, and furthest at bar 5 (4:52 PM ET) with a gap of 17.0727. The largest single-bar change in the recorded values came at bar 15 (5:02 PM ET), a move of -4.10254. 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
14:48 PM2.3965615.1358+12.7393
64:53 PM3.0024819.7654+16.763
124:59 PM2.619213.9798+11.3606
185:05 PM1.919464.60447+2.68502
245:11 PM1.454234.96354+3.50931
295:16 PM1.329153.48545+2.1563

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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