MACD forecast vs outcome — Micro E-mini Nasdaq 100, 1-minute chart, September 30, 2026

Educational reference. Data covers September 30, 2026, 12:54 AM to 1:23 AM ET. This window has closed; every value below already printed.

On September 30, 2026 at 12:54 AM ET, MACD on the Micro E-mini Nasdaq 100 1-minute chart read -13.3407. The model projected the next 30 bars from that point. The window ran to 1:23 AM ET and has since closed, so the projection and the outcome can be placed side by side.

What was projected

-13.04-7.365-1.689Sep 30, 12:54 AM ET1:23 AM ET
Projected MACD path, 30 bars from 12:54 AM ET. Dashed line marks the reading at the start of the window.

What actually printed

-13.04-7.365-1.689Sep 30, 12:54 AM ET1:23 AM ET
Recorded MACD values over the same 30 bars.

The two paths, side by side

Reading at 12:54 AM ET-13.3407
Projected value at 1:23 AM ET-0.926171
Actual value at 1:23 AM ET-2.55633
Projected change across the window+12.4145
Actual change across the window+10.7844
Bars moving the same direction18 of 29
Bars on the projected side of the opening reading28 of 30
Projected move relative to actual1.15×

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 1.15 times the distance the market actually travelled. Bar to bar, 62% of the moves ran the same way as the projection, and 28 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 22 (1:15 AM ET), where they sat 0.346181 apart, and furthest at bar 1 (12:55 AM ET) with a gap of 11.2641. The largest single-bar change in the recorded values came at bar 18 (1:12 AM ET), a move of +1.31544. The projected path stayed on one side of the recorded values for the whole 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
112:55 AM-2.53922-13.8034-11.2641
61:00 AM-3.17967-10.6469-7.46728
121:06 AM-2.82335-6.97153-4.14818
181:12 AM-2.01575-4.50265-2.4869
241:18 AM-1.20594-4.05223-2.84629
291:23 AM-0.926171-2.55633-1.63016

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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