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

Educational reference. Data covers September 5, 2026, 6:15 PM to 6:44 PM ET. This window has closed; every value below already printed.

On September 5, 2026 at 6:15 PM ET, MACD on the BTCUSD 1-minute chart read 13.9182. The model projected the next 30 bars from that point. The window ran to 6:44 PM ET and has since closed, so the projection and the outcome can be placed side by side.

What was projected

-1.01412.1225.25Sep 5, 6:15 PM ET6:44 PM ET
Projected MACD path, 30 bars from 6:15 PM ET. Dashed line marks the reading at the start of the window.

What actually printed

-1.01412.1225.25Sep 5, 6:15 PM ET6:44 PM ET
Recorded MACD values over the same 30 bars.

The two paths, side by side

Reading at 6:15 PM ET13.9182
Projected value at 6:44 PM ET3.2859
Actual value at 6:44 PM ET-2.77787
Projected change across the window-10.6323
Actual change across the window-16.6961
Bars moving the same direction22 of 29
Bars on the projected side of the opening reading18 of 30
Projected move relative to actual0.64×

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 0.64 times the realised distance. Bar to bar, 76% of the moves ran the same way as the projection, and 18 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 (6:31 PM ET), where they sat 0.51183 apart, and furthest at bar 4 (6:19 PM ET) with a gap of 18.9637. The largest single-bar change in the recorded values came at bar 2 (6:17 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
16:16 PM7.3493917.2265+9.87716
66:21 PM8.2210722.9742+14.7531
126:27 PM7.0922614.3002+7.20789
186:33 PM5.627398.96358+3.33619
246:39 PM4.699733.11525-1.58448
296:44 PM3.2859-2.77787-6.06377

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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