Educational reference. Measured from 276 recorded 5m bars of MNQ (Micro E-mini Nasdaq 100) on Wednesday, September 9, 2026.
Fast Stochastics %K crossed above 80 19 separate times during the session, and the typical visit lasted 5 minutes. Across the whole session it sat above 80 for 18.5% of the time, between 20 and 80 for 61.6%, and below 20 for 19.9%.
| Band | Share of session | Bars | Separate visits | Median visit | Longest visit | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Above 80 | 18.5% | 51 | 19 | 5 min | 40 min | |
| Between 20 and 80 | 61.6% | 170 | 38 | 12 min | 80 min | |
| Below 20 | 19.9% | 55 | 20 | 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 19 times, with a median stay of 5 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.