Educational reference. Measured from 276 recorded 5m bars of MES (Micro E-mini S&P 500) on Thursday, September 3, 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 31.2% of the time, between 20 and 80 for 51.8%, and below 20 for 17.0%.
| Band | Share of session | Bars | Separate visits | Median visit | Longest visit | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Above 80 | 31.2% | 86 | 26 | 7 min | 65 min | |
| Between 20 and 80 | 51.8% | 143 | 38 | 15 min | 75 min | |
| Below 20 | 17.0% | 47 | 12 | 7 min | 60 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 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.