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

Educational reference. Data covers September 26, 2026, 8:42 PM to 9:11 PM ET. This window has closed; every value below already printed.

On September 26, 2026 at 8:42 PM ET, MACD on the BTCUSD 1-minute chart read -25.0116. The model projected the next 30 bars from that point. The window ran to 9:11 PM ET and has since closed, so the projection and the outcome can be placed side by side.

What was projected

-22.32-2.26917.78Sep 26, 8:42 PM ET9:11 PM ET
Projected MACD path, 30 bars from 8:42 PM ET. Dashed line marks the reading at the start of the window.

What actually printed

-22.32-2.26917.78Sep 26, 8:42 PM ET9:11 PM ET
Recorded MACD values over the same 30 bars.

The two paths, side by side

Reading at 8:42 PM ET-25.0116
Projected value at 9:11 PM ET13.1297
Actual value at 9:11 PM ET-0.1321
Projected change across the window+38.1413
Actual change across the window+24.8795
Bars moving the same direction23 of 29
Bars on the projected side of the opening reading29 of 30
Projected move relative to actual1.53×

Reading this window

The projection called for MACD to rise across the window, and it rose. The projection overshot: it called for 1.53 times the distance the market actually travelled. Bar to bar, 79% 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 9 (8:50 PM ET), where they sat 2.19171 apart, and furthest at bar 0 (8:42 PM ET) with a gap of 37.4583. The largest single-bar change in the recorded values came at bar 3 (8:45 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
18:43 PM13.9079-16.5579-30.4659
68:48 PM18.361915.0216-3.34038
128:54 PM20.196815.77-4.42685
189:00 PM19.46737.79987-11.6674
249:06 PM16.23494.00137-12.2335
299:11 PM13.1297-0.1321-13.2618

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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