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

Educational reference. Data covers October 1, 2026, 8:34 AM to 9:03 AM ET. This window has closed; every value below already printed.

On October 1, 2026 at 8:34 AM ET, MACD on the Micro E-mini Nasdaq 100 1-minute chart read -18.9486. The model projected the next 30 bars from that point. The window ran to 9:03 AM ET and has since closed, so the projection and the outcome can be placed side by side.

What was projected

-17.92-7.5222.874Oct 1, 8:34 AM ET9:03 AM ET
Projected MACD path, 30 bars from 8:34 AM ET. Dashed line marks the reading at the start of the window.

What actually printed

-17.92-7.5222.874Oct 1, 8:34 AM ET9:03 AM ET
Recorded MACD values over the same 30 bars.

The two paths, side by side

Reading at 8:34 AM ET-18.9486
Projected value at 9:03 AM ET-0.156202
Actual value at 9:03 AM ET3.83734
Projected change across the window+18.7924
Actual change across the window+22.786
Bars moving the same direction18 of 29
Bars on the projected side of the opening reading28 of 30
Projected move relative to actual0.82×

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 0.82 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 26 (8:59 AM ET), where they sat 0.56455 apart, and furthest at bar 1 (8:35 AM ET) with a gap of 16.7748. The largest single-bar change in the recorded values came at bar 26 (9:00 AM ET), a move of +3.72912. 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
18:35 AM-2.53956-19.3143-16.7748
68:40 AM-1.24151-11.2448-10.0033
128:46 AM-0.739922-14.218-13.4781
188:52 AM-0.30109-10.4968-10.1957
248:58 AM-0.25975-3.53586-3.27611
299:03 AM-0.1562023.83734+3.99354

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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