Educational reference. Measured from 288 recorded 5m bars of BTCUSD (Bitcoin) on Saturday, October 17, 2026.
Fast Stochastics %K crossed above 80 27 separate times during the session, and the typical visit lasted 10 minutes. Across the whole session it sat above 80 for 22.6% of the time, between 20 and 80 for 67.4%, and below 20 for 10.1%.
| Band | Share of session | Bars | Separate visits | Median visit | Longest visit | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Above 80 | 22.6% | 65 | 27 | 10 min | 65 min | |
| Between 20 and 80 | 67.4% | 194 | 41 | 15 min | 70 min | |
| Below 20 | 10.1% | 29 | 13 | 10 min | 25 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 27 times, with a median stay of 10 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.