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

Educational reference. Data covers September 16, 2026, 1:30 PM to 1:59 PM ET. This window has closed; every value below already printed.

On September 16, 2026 at 1:30 PM ET, MACD on the Micro E-mini Nasdaq 100 1-minute chart read 2.89595. The model projected the next 30 bars from that point. The window ran to 1:59 PM ET and has since closed, so the projection and the outcome can be placed side by side.

What was projected

-5.614-1.4942.626Sep 16, 1:30 PM ET1:59 PM ET
Projected MACD path, 30 bars from 1:30 PM ET. Dashed line marks the reading at the start of the window.

What actually printed

-5.614-1.4942.626Sep 16, 1:30 PM ET1:59 PM ET
Recorded MACD values over the same 30 bars.

The two paths, side by side

Reading at 1:30 PM ET2.89595
Projected value at 1:59 PM ET-0.0276014
Actual value at 1:59 PM ET-2.90353
Projected change across the window-2.92355
Actual change across the window-5.79948
Bars moving the same direction19 of 29
Bars on the projected side of the opening reading27 of 30
Projected move relative to actual0.50×

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 0.50 times the realised distance. Bar to bar, 66% of the moves ran the same way as the projection, and 27 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 19 (1:48 PM ET), where they sat 0.207508 apart, and furthest at bar 24 (1:54 PM ET) with a gap of 6.13577. The largest single-bar change in the recorded values came at bar 19 (1:49 PM ET), a move of -1.73225. 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
11:31 PM-1.164541.4231+2.58764
61:36 PM-0.3287262.93584+3.26457
121:42 PM-0.01720312.46673+2.48393
181:48 PM-0.01088040.196627+0.207508
241:54 PM0.0159936-6.11978-6.13577
291:59 PM-0.0276014-2.90353-2.87593

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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