Educational reference. Measured from 276 recorded 5m bars of MES (Micro E-mini S&P 500) on Thursday, October 1, 2026.
Fast Stochastics %K crossed above 80 25 separate times during the session, and the typical visit lasted 10 minutes. Across the whole session it sat above 80 for 31.9% of the time, between 20 and 80 for 51.4%, and below 20 for 16.7%.
| Band | Share of session | Bars | Separate visits | Median visit | Longest visit | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Above 80 | 31.9% | 88 | 25 | 10 min | 80 min | |
| Between 20 and 80 | 51.4% | 142 | 41 | 10 min | 120 min | |
| Below 20 | 16.7% | 46 | 17 | 15 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 25 times, with a median stay of 10 minutes and a longest of 80. 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.