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

Educational reference. Data covers October 2, 2026, 3:18 PM to 3:47 PM ET. This window has closed; every value below already printed.

On October 2, 2026 at 3:18 PM ET, MACD on the Micro E-mini Nasdaq 100 1-minute chart read -36.6327. The model projected the next 30 bars from that point. The window ran to 3:47 PM ET and has since closed, so the projection and the outcome can be placed side by side.

What was projected

-35.45-18.68-1.9Oct 2, 3:18 PM ET3:47 PM ET
Projected MACD path, 30 bars from 3:18 PM ET. Dashed line marks the reading at the start of the window.

What actually printed

-35.45-18.68-1.9Oct 2, 3:18 PM ET3:47 PM ET
Recorded MACD values over the same 30 bars.

The two paths, side by side

Reading at 3:18 PM ET-36.6327
Projected value at 3:47 PM ET0.189218
Actual value at 3:47 PM ET-0.381154
Projected change across the window+36.822
Actual change across the window+36.2516
Bars moving the same direction19 of 29
Bars on the projected side of the opening reading23 of 30
Projected move relative to actual1.02×

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 1.02 times the distance the market actually travelled. Bar to bar, 66% of the moves ran the same way as the projection, and 23 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 30 (3:47 PM ET), where they sat 0.570372 apart, and furthest at bar 5 (3:23 PM ET) with a gap of 37.772. The largest single-bar change in the recorded values came at bar 7 (3:25 PM ET), a move of +3.74238. 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
13:19 PM-0.252859-37.57-37.3172
63:24 PM0.116525-37.5735-37.69
123:30 PM0.223307-26.3321-26.5554
183:36 PM0.106844-19.1329-19.2398
243:42 PM0.156633-14.5107-14.6674
293:47 PM0.189218-0.381154-0.570372

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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