Educational reference. Measured from 276 recorded 5m bars of MES (Micro E mini S&P 500) on Thursday, October 22, 2026.
Fast Stochastics %K crossed above 80 13 separate times during the session, and the typical visit lasted 10 minutes. Across the whole session it sat above 80 for 14.5% of the time, between 20 and 80 for 58.7%, and below 20 for 26.8%.
| Band | Share of session | Bars | Separate visits | Median visit | Longest visit | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Above 80 | 14.5% | 40 | 13 | 10 min | 35 min | |
| Between 20 and 80 | 58.7% | 162 | 40 | 15 min | 75 min | |
| Below 20 | 26.8% | 74 | 26 | 10 min | 45 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 13 times, with a median stay of 10 minutes and a longest of 35. 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.