MACD forecast vs outcome — Micro E-mini Nasdaq 100, 1-minute chart, October 2, 2026

Educational reference. Data covers October 2, 2026, 1:45 PM to 2:14 PM ET. This window has closed; every value below already printed.

On October 2, 2026 at 1:45 PM ET, MACD on the Micro E-mini Nasdaq 100 1-minute chart read 3.47529. The model projected the next 30 bars from that point. The window ran to 2:14 PM ET and has since closed, so the projection and the outcome can be placed side by side.

What was projected

-14.63-2.7459.142Oct 2, 1:45 PM ET2:14 PM ET
Projected MACD path, 30 bars from 1:45 PM ET. Dashed line marks the reading at the start of the window.

What actually printed

-14.63-2.7459.142Oct 2, 1:45 PM ET2:14 PM ET
Recorded MACD values over the same 30 bars.

The two paths, side by side

Reading at 1:45 PM ET3.47529
Projected value at 2:14 PM ET-4.49833
Actual value at 2:14 PM ET10.7389
Projected change across the window-7.97362
Actual change across the window+7.26365
Bars moving the same direction19 of 29
Bars on the projected side of the opening reading20 of 30
Projected move relative to actual1.10×

Reading this window

The projection called for MACD to fall, while it rose instead. The two moves were close in size: the projection covered 1.10 times the distance the market actually travelled. Bar to bar, 66% of the moves ran the same way as the projection, and 20 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 16 (2:00 PM ET), where they sat 0.103097 apart, and furthest at bar 29 (2:14 PM ET) with a gap of 15.2373. The largest single-bar change in the recorded values came at bar 15 (2:00 PM ET), a move of +6.70149. 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
11:46 PM-5.741880.488222+6.2301
61:51 PM-4.94008-9.579-4.63891
121:57 PM-5.49629-16.2289-10.7326
182:03 PM-4.857332.02919+6.88652
242:09 PM-4.207096.39158+10.5987
292:14 PM-4.4983310.7389+15.2373

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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