MACD forecast vs outcome — Micro E-mini Nasdaq 100, 15-minute chart, September 8, 2026

Educational reference. Data covers September 8, 2026, 3:57 PM to 11:12 PM ET. This window has closed; every value below already printed.

On September 8, 2026 at 3:57 PM ET, MACD on the Micro E-mini Nasdaq 100 15-minute chart read -3.52122. The model projected the next 30 bars from that point. The window ran to 11:12 PM ET and has since closed, so the projection and the outcome can be placed side by side.

What was projected

-3.289-1.5620.1655Sep 8, 3:57 PM ET11:12 PM ET
Projected MACD path, 30 bars from 3:57 PM ET. Dashed line marks the reading at the start of the window.

What actually printed

-3.289-1.5620.1655Sep 8, 3:57 PM ET11:12 PM ET
Recorded MACD values over the same 30 bars.

The two paths, side by side

Reading at 3:57 PM ET-3.52122
Projected value at 11:12 PM ET-0.118429
Actual value at 11:12 PM ET0.397518
Projected change across the window+3.40279
Actual change across the window+3.91874
Bars moving the same direction23 of 29
Bars on the projected side of the opening reading29 of 30
Projected move relative to actual0.87×

Reading this window

The projection called for MACD to rise across the window, and it rose. The two moves were close in size: the projection covered 0.87 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 21 (8:57 PM ET), where they sat 0.0202832 apart, and furthest at bar 7 (5:42 PM ET) with a gap of 1.54797. The largest single-bar change in the recorded values came at bar 9 (6:12 PM ET), a move of +0.633062. 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
14:12 PM-2.52811-3.44309-0.91498
65:27 PM-1.22998-2.69335-1.46337
126:57 PM-0.597893-1.40754-0.809651
188:27 PM-0.165455-0.0128843+0.152571
249:57 PM-0.0839083-0.680335-0.596426
2911:12 PM-0.1184290.397518+0.515947

About MACD on a 15-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 15-minute timeframe a 30-bar projection covers 7.5 hours of trading, so the window above describes 7.5 hours of Micro E-mini Nasdaq 100 activity rather than a single print.

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