MACD forecast vs outcome — Micro E-mini Nasdaq 100, 1-minute chart, September 15, 2026

Educational reference. Data covers September 15, 2026, 6:17 PM to 6:46 PM ET. This window has closed; every value below already printed.

On September 15, 2026 at 6:17 PM ET, MACD on the Micro E-mini Nasdaq 100 1-minute chart read -5.50788. The model projected the next 30 bars from that point. The window ran to 6:46 PM ET and has since closed, so the projection and the outcome can be placed side by side.

What was projected

-6.111-1.5363.04Sep 15, 6:17 PM ET6:46 PM ET
Projected MACD path, 30 bars from 6:17 PM ET. Dashed line marks the reading at the start of the window.

What actually printed

-6.111-1.5363.04Sep 15, 6:17 PM ET6:46 PM ET
Recorded MACD values over the same 30 bars.

The two paths, side by side

Reading at 6:17 PM ET-5.50788
Projected value at 6:46 PM ET-0.364207
Actual value at 6:46 PM ET-1.34308
Projected change across the window+5.14367
Actual change across the window+4.1648
Bars moving the same direction18 of 29
Bars on the projected side of the opening reading21 of 30
Projected move relative to actual1.24×

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 1.24 times the distance the market actually travelled. Bar to bar, 62% of the moves ran the same way as the projection, and 21 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 17 (6:33 PM ET), where they sat 0.497772 apart, and furthest at bar 12 (6:29 PM ET) with a gap of 5.7528. The largest single-bar change in the recorded values came at bar 15 (6:32 PM ET), a move of +1.92828. 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
16:18 PM-2.97037-5.47512-2.50474
66:23 PM-1.68763-5.333-3.64538
126:29 PM-0.941407-6.69421-5.7528
186:35 PM-0.5368980.565926+1.10282
246:41 PM-0.4281022.78815+3.21625
296:46 PM-0.364207-1.34308-0.978873

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 Micro E-mini Nasdaq 100 activity rather than a single print.

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