Educational reference. Measured from 288 recorded 5m bars of BTCUSD (Bitcoin) on Friday, September 4, 2026.
Fast Stochastics %K crossed above 80 18 separate times during the session, and the typical visit lasted 12 minutes. Across the whole session it sat above 80 for 20.8% of the time, between 20 and 80 for 64.9%, and below 20 for 14.2%.
| Band | Share of session | Bars | Separate visits | Median visit | Longest visit | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Above 80 | 20.8% | 60 | 18 | 12 min | 55 min | |
| Between 20 and 80 | 64.9% | 187 | 37 | 20 min | 90 min | |
| Below 20 | 14.2% | 41 | 18 | 10 min | 45 min |
The fast line is the unsmoothed version of the same range calculation, so it reaches the extremes far more often than the smoothed %K and leaves them sooner.
Here the reading entered overbought territory 18 times, with a median stay of 12 minutes and a longest of 55. The gap between this page's visit count and the smoothed Stochastics page for the same session is a direct measure of how much the smoothing removes.