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

Educational reference. Data covers September 26, 2026, 8:44 PM to 9:13 PM ET. This window has closed; every value below already printed.

On September 26, 2026 at 8:44 PM ET, MACD on the BTCUSD 1-minute chart read -36.5661. The model projected the next 30 bars from that point. The window ran to 9:13 PM ET and has since closed, so the projection and the outcome can be placed side by side.

What was projected

-33.88-9.85614.17Sep 26, 8:44 PM ET9:13 PM ET
Projected MACD path, 30 bars from 8:44 PM ET. Dashed line marks the reading at the start of the window.

What actually printed

-33.88-9.85614.17Sep 26, 8:44 PM ET9:13 PM ET
Recorded MACD values over the same 30 bars.

The two paths, side by side

Reading at 8:44 PM ET-36.5661
Projected value at 9:13 PM ET10.9979
Actual value at 9:13 PM ET1.15836
Projected change across the window+47.564
Actual change across the window+37.7244
Bars moving the same direction25 of 29
Bars on the projected side of the opening reading28 of 30
Projected move relative to actual1.26×

Reading this window

The projection called for MACD to rise across the window, and it rose. The projection overshot: it called for 1.26 times the distance the market actually travelled. Bar to bar, 86% of the moves ran the same way as the projection, and 28 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 13 (8:56 PM ET), where they sat 0.0480111 apart, and furthest at bar 1 (8:45 PM ET) with a gap of 49.0194. The largest single-bar change in the recorded values came at bar 6 (8:50 PM ET), a move of +10.8082. 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
18:45 PM11.9093-37.1101-49.0194
68:50 PM15.29794.06541-11.2325
128:56 PM16.837716.8858+0.0480111
189:02 PM16.929412.6431-4.28628
249:08 PM13.50916.75984-6.74926
299:13 PM10.99791.15836-9.83956

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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