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

Educational reference. Data covers September 5, 2026, 6:14 PM to 6:43 PM ET. This window has closed; every value below already printed.

On September 5, 2026 at 6:14 PM ET, MACD on the BTCUSD 1-minute chart read 17.2265. The model projected the next 30 bars from that point. The window ran to 6:43 PM ET and has since closed, so the projection and the outcome can be placed side by side.

What was projected

-2.80511.1725.14Sep 5, 6:14 PM ET6:43 PM ET
Projected MACD path, 30 bars from 6:14 PM ET. Dashed line marks the reading at the start of the window.

What actually printed

-2.80511.1725.14Sep 5, 6:14 PM ET6:43 PM ET
Recorded MACD values over the same 30 bars.

The two paths, side by side

Reading at 6:14 PM ET17.2265
Projected value at 6:43 PM ET2.85628
Actual value at 6:43 PM ET-4.68194
Projected change across the window-14.3703
Actual change across the window-21.9085
Bars moving the same direction19 of 29
Bars on the projected side of the opening reading21 of 30
Projected move relative to actual0.66×

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 0.66 times the realised distance. Bar to bar, 66% of the moves ran the same way as the projection, and 21 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 24 (6:37 PM ET), where they sat 1.04832 apart, and furthest at bar 3 (6:17 PM ET) with a gap of 21.5147. The largest single-bar change in the recorded values came at bar 1 (6:15 PM ET), a move of +6.10311. 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
16:15 PM5.2965523.3297+18.0331
66:20 PM5.3720220.663+15.291
126:26 PM5.5222911.8891+6.36681
186:32 PM5.085968.00528+2.91932
246:38 PM3.892611.20759-2.68502
296:43 PM2.85628-4.68194-7.53822

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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