Educational reference. Measured from 288 recorded 5m bars of BTCUSD (Bitcoin) on Tuesday, September 8, 2026.
Fast Stochastics %K crossed above 80 16 separate times during the session, and the typical visit lasted 15 minutes. Across the whole session it sat above 80 for 21.2% of the time, between 20 and 80 for 60.1%, and below 20 for 18.8%.
| Band | Share of session | Bars | Separate visits | Median visit | Longest visit | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Above 80 | 21.2% | 61 | 16 | 15 min | 60 min | |
| Between 20 and 80 | 60.1% | 173 | 34 | 20 min | 80 min | |
| Below 20 | 18.8% | 54 | 17 | 10 min | 50 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 16 times, with a median stay of 15 minutes and a longest of 60. 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.