Educational reference. Measured from 1020 recorded 1m bars of ES (E-mini S&P 500) on Friday, September 25, 2026.
Fast Stochastics %K crossed above 80 79 separate times during the session, and the typical visit lasted 2 minutes. Across the whole session it sat above 80 for 26.1% of the time, between 20 and 80 for 56.3%, and below 20 for 17.6%.
| Band | Share of session | Bars | Separate visits | Median visit | Longest visit | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Above 80 | 26.1% | 266 | 79 | 2 min | 20 min | |
| Between 20 and 80 | 56.3% | 574 | 155 | 3 min | 20 min | |
| Below 20 | 17.6% | 180 | 78 | 1 min | 12 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 79 times, with a median stay of 2 minutes and a longest of 20. 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.