Educational reference. Measured from 288 recorded 5m bars of BTCUSD (Bitcoin) on Friday, September 11, 2026.
Fast Stochastics %K crossed above 80 22 separate times during the session, and the typical visit lasted 12 minutes. Across the whole session it sat above 80 for 23.6% of the time, between 20 and 80 for 62.2%, and below 20 for 14.2%.
| Band | Share of session | Bars | Separate visits | Median visit | Longest visit | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Above 80 | 23.6% | 68 | 22 | 12 min | 45 min | |
| Between 20 and 80 | 62.2% | 179 | 38 | 17 min | 90 min | |
| Below 20 | 14.2% | 41 | 16 | 7 min | 40 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 22 times, with a median stay of 12 minutes and a longest of 45. 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.