Educational reference. Measured from 288 recorded 5m bars of BTCUSD (Bitcoin) on Saturday, September 26, 2026.
Fast Stochastics %K crossed above 80 22 separate times during the session, and the typical visit lasted 10 minutes. Across the whole session it sat above 80 for 21.5% of the time, between 20 and 80 for 61.5%, and below 20 for 17.0%.
| Band | Share of session | Bars | Separate visits | Median visit | Longest visit | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Above 80 | 21.5% | 62 | 22 | 10 min | 40 min | |
| Between 20 and 80 | 61.5% | 177 | 42 | 15 min | 75 min | |
| Below 20 | 17.0% | 49 | 23 | 10 min | 30 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 10 minutes and a longest of 40. 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.