MACD forecast vs outcome — BTCUSD, 1-minute chart, September 26, 2026

Educational reference. Data covers September 26, 2026, 8:41 PM to 9:10 PM ET. This window has closed; every value below already printed.

On September 26, 2026 at 8:41 PM ET, MACD on the BTCUSD 1-minute chart read -16.5579. The model projected the next 30 bars from that point. The window ran to 9:10 PM ET and has since closed, so the projection and the outcome can be placed side by side.

What was projected

-14.371.95818.28Sep 26, 8:41 PM ET9:10 PM ET
Projected MACD path, 30 bars from 8:41 PM ET. Dashed line marks the reading at the start of the window.

What actually printed

-14.371.95818.28Sep 26, 8:41 PM ET9:10 PM ET
Recorded MACD values over the same 30 bars.

The two paths, side by side

Reading at 8:41 PM ET-16.5579
Projected value at 9:10 PM ET13.1297
Actual value at 9:10 PM ET1.16002
Projected change across the window+29.6876
Actual change across the window+17.7179
Bars moving the same direction21 of 29
Bars on the projected side of the opening reading29 of 30
Projected move relative to actual1.68×

Reading this window

The projection called for MACD to rise across the window, and it rose. The projection overshot: it called for 1.68 times the distance the market actually travelled. Bar to bar, 72% of the moves ran the same way as the projection, and 29 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 8 (8:48 PM ET), where they sat 1.54842 apart, and furthest at bar 0 (8:41 PM ET) with a gap of 29.0046. The largest single-bar change in the recorded values came at bar 2 (8:43 PM ET), a move of +10.8082. The projected path stayed on one side of the recorded values for the whole 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
18:42 PM13.9079-6.74283-20.6508
68:47 PM18.361916.1688-2.19314
128:53 PM20.196814.7778-5.41905
188:59 PM19.46737.09719-12.3701
249:05 PM16.23492.27452-13.9603
299:10 PM13.12971.16002-11.9697

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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