MACD forecast vs outcome — Micro E-mini Nasdaq 100, 1-minute chart, September 16, 2026

Educational reference. Data covers September 16, 2026, 12:42 PM to 1:11 PM ET. This window has closed; every value below already printed.

On September 16, 2026 at 12:42 PM ET, MACD on the Micro E-mini Nasdaq 100 1-minute chart read -12.1764. The model projected the next 30 bars from that point. The window ran to 1:11 PM ET and has since closed, so the projection and the outcome can be placed side by side.

What was projected

-11.06-2.7115.634Sep 16, 12:42 PM ET1:11 PM ET
Projected MACD path, 30 bars from 12:42 PM ET. Dashed line marks the reading at the start of the window.

What actually printed

-11.06-2.7115.634Sep 16, 12:42 PM ET1:11 PM ET
Recorded MACD values over the same 30 bars.

The two paths, side by side

Reading at 12:42 PM ET-12.1764
Projected value at 1:11 PM ET-0.385935
Actual value at 1:11 PM ET6.75511
Projected change across the window+11.7905
Actual change across the window+18.9315
Bars moving the same direction21 of 29
Bars on the projected side of the opening reading29 of 30
Projected move relative to actual0.62×

Reading this window

The projection called for MACD to rise across the window, and it rose. The market travelled further than projected — the projection covered only 0.62 times the realised distance. Bar to bar, 72% 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 9 (12:50 PM ET), where they sat 0.258204 apart, and furthest at bar 0 (12:42 PM ET) with a gap of 8.63394. The largest single-bar change in the recorded values came at bar 5 (12:47 PM ET), a move of +2.2692. 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
112:43 PM-3.21273-11.4021-8.1894
612:48 PM-2.06126-4.605-2.54374
1212:54 PM-1.294842.22473+3.51957
181:00 PM-0.7891563.49342+4.28258
241:06 PM-0.5096354.11595+4.62558
291:11 PM-0.3859356.75511+7.14105

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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