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

Educational reference. Data covers September 26, 2026, 9:15 PM to 9:44 PM ET. This window has closed; every value below already printed.

On September 26, 2026 at 9:15 PM ET, MACD on the BTCUSD 1-minute chart read 29.9135. The model projected the next 30 bars from that point. The window ran to 9:44 PM ET and has since closed, so the projection and the outcome can be placed side by side.

What was projected

-44.59-9.68225.23Sep 26, 9:15 PM ET9:44 PM ET
Projected MACD path, 30 bars from 9:15 PM ET. Dashed line marks the reading at the start of the window.

What actually printed

-44.59-9.68225.23Sep 26, 9:15 PM ET9:44 PM ET
Recorded MACD values over the same 30 bars.

The two paths, side by side

Reading at 9:15 PM ET29.9135
Projected value at 9:44 PM ET-4.52424
Actual value at 9:44 PM ET-35.4128
Projected change across the window-34.4377
Actual change across the window-65.3263
Bars moving the same direction23 of 29
Bars on the projected side of the opening reading30 of 30
Projected move relative to actual0.53×

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 0.53 times the realised distance. Bar to bar, 79% 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 20 (9:34 PM ET), where they sat 1.0878 apart, and furthest at bar 26 (9:41 PM ET) with a gap of 45.4303. The largest single-bar change in the recorded values came at bar 21 (9:36 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
19:16 PM20.091329.5561+9.4648
69:21 PM15.512428.288+12.7756
129:27 PM6.4883814.764+8.27564
189:33 PM-1.102021.80288+2.9049
249:39 PM-3.40775-38.8488-35.441
299:44 PM-4.52424-35.4128-30.8886

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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