Educational reference. Measured from 276 recorded 5m bars of MES (Micro E mini S&P 500) on Thursday, October 8, 2026.
Fast Stochastics %K crossed above 80 22 separate times during the session, and the typical visit lasted 15 minutes. Across the whole session it sat above 80 for 24.3% of the time, between 20 and 80 for 52.5%, and below 20 for 23.2%.
| Band | Share of session | Bars | Separate visits | Median visit | Longest visit | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Above 80 | 24.3% | 67 | 22 | 15 min | 40 min | |
| Between 20 and 80 | 52.5% | 145 | 39 | 10 min | 60 min | |
| Below 20 | 23.2% | 64 | 17 | 15 min | 65 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 22 times, with a median stay of 15 minutes and a longest of 40. 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.