Educational reference. Measured from 288 recorded 5m bars of BTCUSD (Bitcoin) on Wednesday, October 21, 2026.
Fast Stochastics %K crossed above 80 34 separate times during the session, and the typical visit lasted 7 minutes. Across the whole session it sat above 80 for 21.9% of the time, between 20 and 80 for 56.6%, and below 20 for 21.5%.
| Band | Share of session | Bars | Separate visits | Median visit | Longest visit | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Above 80 | 21.9% | 63 | 34 | 7 min | 30 min | |
| Between 20 and 80 | 56.6% | 163 | 48 | 10 min | 60 min | |
| Below 20 | 21.5% | 62 | 15 | 5 min | 110 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 34 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.