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

Educational reference. Data covers September 26, 2026, 8:43 PM to 9:12 PM ET. This window has closed; every value below already printed.

On September 26, 2026 at 8:43 PM ET, MACD on the BTCUSD 1-minute chart read -37.1101. The model projected the next 30 bars from that point. The window ran to 9:12 PM ET and has since closed, so the projection and the outcome can be placed side by side.

What was projected

-33.85-9.55914.73Sep 26, 8:43 PM ET9:12 PM ET
Projected MACD path, 30 bars from 8:43 PM ET. Dashed line marks the reading at the start of the window.

What actually printed

-33.85-9.55914.73Sep 26, 8:43 PM ET9:12 PM ET
Recorded MACD values over the same 30 bars.

The two paths, side by side

Reading at 8:43 PM ET-37.1101
Projected value at 9:12 PM ET10.8851
Actual value at 9:12 PM ET0.256535
Projected change across the window+47.9953
Actual change across the window+37.3667
Bars moving the same direction24 of 29
Bars on the projected side of the opening reading29 of 30
Projected move relative to actual1.28×

Reading this window

The projection called for MACD to rise across the window, and it rose. The projection overshot: it called for 1.28 times the distance the market actually travelled. Bar to bar, 83% 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 11 (8:53 PM ET), where they sat 0.364918 apart, and furthest at bar 0 (8:43 PM ET) with a gap of 48.8336. The largest single-bar change in the recorded values came at bar 5 (8:48 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
18:44 PM12.4206-32.7155-45.1361
68:49 PM15.626712.2087-3.41808
128:55 PM17.477216.3771-1.10006
189:01 PM16.896511.6132-5.28327
249:07 PM13.81596.94551-6.8704
299:12 PM10.88510.256535-10.6286

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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