Educational reference. Measured from 287 recorded 5m bars of BTCUSD (Bitcoin) on Friday, September 25, 2026.
Fast Stochastics %K crossed above 80 16 separate times during the session, and the typical visit lasted 12 minutes. Across the whole session it sat above 80 for 21.3% of the time, between 20 and 80 for 64.5%, and below 20 for 14.3%.
| Band | Share of session | Bars | Separate visits | Median visit | Longest visit | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Above 80 | 21.3% | 61 | 16 | 12 min | 65 min | |
| Between 20 and 80 | 64.5% | 185 | 34 | 20 min | 100 min | |
| Below 20 | 14.3% | 41 | 17 | 5 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 16 times, with a median stay of 12 minutes and a longest of 65. 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.