Educational reference. Measured from 288 recorded 5m bars of BTCUSD (Bitcoin) on Wednesday, September 16, 2026.
Fast Stochastics %K crossed above 80 17 separate times during the session, and the typical visit lasted 10 minutes. Across the whole session it sat above 80 for 22.9% of the time, between 20 and 80 for 58.7%, and below 20 for 18.4%.
| Band | Share of session | Bars | Separate visits | Median visit | Longest visit | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Above 80 | 22.9% | 66 | 17 | 10 min | 70 min | |
| Between 20 and 80 | 58.7% | 169 | 38 | 15 min | 120 min | |
| Below 20 | 18.4% | 53 | 21 | 10 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 17 times, with a median stay of 10 minutes and a longest of 70. 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.