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

Educational reference. Data covers September 5, 2026, 6:06 PM to 6:35 PM ET. This window has closed; every value below already printed.

On September 5, 2026 at 6:06 PM ET, MACD on the BTCUSD 1-minute chart read 19.2657. The model projected the next 30 bars from that point. The window ran to 6:35 PM ET and has since closed, so the projection and the outcome can be placed side by side.

What was projected

-5.2076.2617.73Sep 5, 6:06 PM ET6:35 PM ET
Projected MACD path, 30 bars from 6:06 PM ET. Dashed line marks the reading at the start of the window.

What actually printed

-5.2076.2617.73Sep 5, 6:06 PM ET6:35 PM ET
Recorded MACD values over the same 30 bars.

The two paths, side by side

Reading at 6:06 PM ET19.2657
Projected value at 6:35 PM ET1.80263
Actual value at 6:35 PM ET-3.56536
Projected change across the window-17.4631
Actual change across the window-22.8311
Bars moving the same direction21 of 29
Bars on the projected side of the opening reading30 of 30
Projected move relative to actual0.76×

Reading this window

The projection called for MACD to fall across the window, and it fell. The market travelled further than projected — the projection covered only 0.76 times the realised distance. Bar to bar, 72% 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 17 (6:22 PM ET), where they sat 0.394767 apart, and furthest at bar 1 (6:07 PM ET) with a gap of 9.18654. The largest single-bar change in the recorded values came at bar 6 (6:12 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
16:07 PM9.3431318.5297+9.18654
66:12 PM6.650519.06439+2.41388
126:18 PM4.23567.36215+3.12655
186:24 PM2.946020.389325-2.5567
246:30 PM2.33866-6.74647-9.08514
296:35 PM1.80263-3.56536-5.368

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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