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

Educational reference. Data covers September 30, 2026, 1:35 PM to 2:04 PM ET. This window has closed; every value below already printed.

On September 30, 2026 at 1:35 PM ET, MACD on the Micro E-mini Nasdaq 100 1-minute chart read 7.39672. The model projected the next 30 bars from that point. The window ran to 2:04 PM ET and has since closed, so the projection and the outcome can be placed side by side.

What was projected

-7.6963.9415.58Sep 30, 1:35 PM ET2:04 PM ET
Projected MACD path, 30 bars from 1:35 PM ET. Dashed line marks the reading at the start of the window.

What actually printed

-7.6963.9415.58Sep 30, 1:35 PM ET2:04 PM ET
Recorded MACD values over the same 30 bars.

The two paths, side by side

Reading at 1:35 PM ET7.39672
Projected value at 2:04 PM ET-5.33879
Actual value at 2:04 PM ET16.5028
Projected change across the window-12.7355
Actual change across the window+9.10607
Bars moving the same direction21 of 29
Bars on the projected side of the opening reading18 of 30
Projected move relative to actual1.40×

Reading this window

The projection called for MACD to fall, while it rose instead. The projection overshot: it called for 1.40 times the distance the market actually travelled. Bar to bar, 72% of the moves ran the same way as the projection, and 18 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 12 (1:46 PM ET), where they sat 2.64211 apart, and furthest at bar 28 (2:03 PM ET) with a gap of 22.8103. The largest single-bar change in the recorded values came at bar 5 (1:40 PM ET), a move of -6.83708. 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
11:36 PM-8.778939.00888+17.7878
61:41 PM-9.25849-5.13181+4.12668
121:47 PM-8.7793-6.06779+2.71151
181:53 PM-7.40586.23506+13.6409
241:59 PM-6.2811214.6859+20.967
292:04 PM-5.3387916.5028+21.8416

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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