Educational reference. Measured from 288 recorded 5m bars of BTCUSD (Bitcoin) on Tuesday, September 22, 2026.
Fast Stochastics %K crossed above 80 22 separate times during the session, and the typical visit lasted 7 minutes. Across the whole session it sat above 80 for 17.4% of the time, between 20 and 80 for 70.5%, and below 20 for 12.2%.
| Band | Share of session | Bars | Separate visits | Median visit | Longest visit | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Above 80 | 17.4% | 50 | 22 | 7 min | 30 min | |
| Between 20 and 80 | 70.5% | 203 | 43 | 15 min | 80 min | |
| Below 20 | 12.2% | 35 | 20 | 7 min | 20 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 7 minutes and a longest of 30. 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.