Educational reference. Measured from 288 recorded 5m bars of BTCUSD (Bitcoin) on Thursday, September 24, 2026.
Fast Stochastics %K crossed above 80 24 separate times during the session, and the typical visit lasted 15 minutes. Across the whole session it sat above 80 for 27.4% of the time, between 20 and 80 for 55.6%, and below 20 for 17.0%.
| Band | Share of session | Bars | Separate visits | Median visit | Longest visit | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Above 80 | 27.4% | 79 | 24 | 15 min | 60 min | |
| Between 20 and 80 | 55.6% | 160 | 42 | 10 min | 75 min | |
| Below 20 | 17.0% | 49 | 18 | 12 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 24 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.