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

Educational reference. Data covers September 5, 2026, 6:13 PM to 6:42 PM ET. This window has closed; every value below already printed.

On September 5, 2026 at 6:13 PM ET, MACD on the BTCUSD 1-minute chart read 23.3297. The model projected the next 30 bars from that point. The window ran to 6:42 PM ET and has since closed, so the projection and the outcome can be placed side by side.

What was projected

-4.04410.5125.06Sep 5, 6:13 PM ET6:42 PM ET
Projected MACD path, 30 bars from 6:13 PM ET. Dashed line marks the reading at the start of the window.

What actually printed

-4.04410.5125.06Sep 5, 6:13 PM ET6:42 PM ET
Recorded MACD values over the same 30 bars.

The two paths, side by side

Reading at 6:13 PM ET23.3297
Projected value at 6:42 PM ET4.40945
Actual value at 6:42 PM ET-5.99846
Projected change across the window-18.9202
Actual change across the window-29.3281
Bars moving the same direction18 of 29
Bars on the projected side of the opening reading27 of 30
Projected move relative to actual0.65×

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 0.65 times the realised distance. Bar to bar, 62% of the moves ran the same way as the projection, and 27 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 18 (6:30 PM ET), where they sat 0.131172 apart, and furthest at bar 2 (6:15 PM ET) with a gap of 17.4763. The largest single-bar change in the recorded values came at bar 12 (6:25 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
16:14 PM8.2822925.1099+16.8276
66:19 PM11.493819.2657+7.77193
126:25 PM10.60689.06439-1.54242
186:31 PM7.722867.36215-0.360709
246:37 PM5.668340.389325-5.27901
296:42 PM4.40945-5.99846-10.4079

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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