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

Educational reference. Data covers September 26, 2026, 9:13 PM to 9:42 PM ET. This window has closed; every value below already printed.

On September 26, 2026 at 9:13 PM ET, MACD on the BTCUSD 1-minute chart read 29.5561. The model projected the next 30 bars from that point. The window ran to 9:42 PM ET and has since closed, so the projection and the outcome can be placed side by side.

What was projected

-44.61-9.86124.89Sep 26, 9:13 PM ET9:42 PM ET
Projected MACD path, 30 bars from 9:13 PM ET. Dashed line marks the reading at the start of the window.

What actually printed

-44.61-9.86124.89Sep 26, 9:13 PM ET9:42 PM ET
Recorded MACD values over the same 30 bars.

The two paths, side by side

Reading at 9:13 PM ET29.5561
Projected value at 9:42 PM ET-4.88241
Actual value at 9:42 PM ET-36.5661
Projected change across the window-34.4385
Actual change across the window-66.1222
Bars moving the same direction24 of 29
Bars on the projected side of the opening reading30 of 30
Projected move relative to actual0.52×

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 0.52 times the realised distance. Bar to bar, 83% of the moves ran the same way as the projection, and 30 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 19 (9:31 PM ET), where they sat 0.301989 apart, and furthest at bar 25 (9:38 PM ET) with a gap of 43.8639. The largest single-bar change in the recorded values came at bar 20 (9:33 PM ET), a move of -8.01031. 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
19:14 PM14.411428.67+14.2586
69:19 PM11.348228.0429+16.6947
129:25 PM3.3482513.3517+10.0034
189:31 PM-2.79513-2.49314+0.301989
249:37 PM-5.45256-45.7737-40.3211
299:42 PM-4.88241-36.5661-31.6837

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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