Educational reference. Measured from 288 recorded 5m bars of BTCUSD (Bitcoin) on Tuesday, October 6, 2026.
Fast Stochastics %K crossed above 80 26 separate times during the session, and the typical visit lasted 7 minutes. Across the whole session it sat above 80 for 19.8% of the time, between 20 and 80 for 57.3%, and below 20 for 22.9%.
| Band | Share of session | Bars | Separate visits | Median visit | Longest visit | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Above 80 | 19.8% | 57 | 26 | 7 min | 30 min | |
| Between 20 and 80 | 57.3% | 165 | 44 | 10 min | 70 min | |
| Below 20 | 22.9% | 66 | 19 | 10 min | 85 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 26 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.