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

Educational reference. Data covers September 5, 2026, 6:04 PM to 6:33 PM ET. This window has closed; every value below already printed.

On September 5, 2026 at 6:04 PM ET, MACD on the BTCUSD 1-minute chart read 17.6323. The model projected the next 30 bars from that point. The window ran to 6:33 PM ET and has since closed, so the projection and the outcome can be placed side by side.

What was projected

-5.3035.44316.19Sep 5, 6:04 PM ET6:33 PM ET
Projected MACD path, 30 bars from 6:04 PM ET. Dashed line marks the reading at the start of the window.

What actually printed

-5.3035.44316.19Sep 5, 6:04 PM ET6:33 PM ET
Recorded MACD values over the same 30 bars.

The two paths, side by side

Reading at 6:04 PM ET17.6323
Projected value at 6:33 PM ET2.51534
Actual value at 6:33 PM ET-1.12003
Projected change across the window-15.1169
Actual change across the window-18.7523
Bars moving the same direction19 of 29
Bars on the projected side of the opening reading30 of 30
Projected move relative to actual0.81×

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 0.81 times the distance the market actually travelled. Bar to bar, 66% of the moves ran the same way as the projection, and 30 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 6 (6:09 PM ET), where they sat 0.0321086 apart, and furthest at bar 22 (6:26 PM ET) with a gap of 10.0394. The largest single-bar change in the recorded values came at bar 4 (6:08 PM ET), a move of -2.82471. 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
16:05 PM12.970516.2009+3.2304
66:10 PM7.623166.65147-0.971697
126:16 PM5.718837.86627+2.14744
186:22 PM4.43826-2.07367-6.51193
246:28 PM2.77075-5.47042-8.24117
296:33 PM2.51534-1.12003-3.63537

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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