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

Educational reference. Data covers September 15, 2026, 8:37 PM to 9:06 PM ET. This window has closed; every value below already printed.

On September 15, 2026 at 8:37 PM ET, MACD on the Micro E-mini Nasdaq 100 1-minute chart read -4.18731. The model projected the next 30 bars from that point. The window ran to 9:06 PM ET and has since closed, so the projection and the outcome can be placed side by side.

What was projected

-4.348-1.810.7279Sep 15, 8:37 PM ET9:06 PM ET
Projected MACD path, 30 bars from 8:37 PM ET. Dashed line marks the reading at the start of the window.

What actually printed

-4.348-1.810.7279Sep 15, 8:37 PM ET9:06 PM ET
Recorded MACD values over the same 30 bars.

The two paths, side by side

Reading at 8:37 PM ET-4.18731
Projected value at 9:06 PM ET-0.196548
Actual value at 9:06 PM ET-0.322924
Projected change across the window+3.99076
Actual change across the window+3.86438
Bars moving the same direction20 of 29
Bars on the projected side of the opening reading24 of 30
Projected move relative to actual1.03×

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 1.03 times the distance the market actually travelled. Bar to bar, 69% of the moves ran the same way as the projection, and 24 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 30 (9:06 PM ET), where they sat 0.126376 apart, and furthest at bar 2 (8:39 PM ET) with a gap of 4.23999. The largest single-bar change in the recorded values came at bar 3 (8:40 PM ET), a move of +0.818939. 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
18:38 PM0.43219-3.51739-3.94958
68:43 PM-0.953908-2.61598-1.66207
128:49 PM-3.37475-3.55093-0.176178
188:55 PM-4.50998-3.13499+1.37499
249:01 PM-2.52893-1.12136+1.40757
299:06 PM-0.196548-0.322924-0.126376

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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