Educational reference. Measured from 288 recorded 5m bars of BTCUSD (Bitcoin) on Sunday, October 11, 2026.
Fast Stochastics %K crossed above 80 23 separate times during the session, and the typical visit lasted 10 minutes. Across the whole session it sat above 80 for 24.3% of the time, between 20 and 80 for 59.0%, and below 20 for 16.7%.
| Band | Share of session | Bars | Separate visits | Median visit | Longest visit | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Above 80 | 24.3% | 70 | 23 | 10 min | 70 min | |
| Between 20 and 80 | 59.0% | 170 | 40 | 15 min | 90 min | |
| Below 20 | 16.7% | 48 | 18 | 5 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 23 times, with a median stay of 10 minutes and a longest of 70. 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.