Educational reference. Measured from 276 recorded 5m bars of MNQ (Micro E-mini Nasdaq 100) on Thursday, September 24, 2026.
Fast Stochastics %K crossed above 80 19 separate times during the session, and the typical visit lasted 10 minutes. Across the whole session it sat above 80 for 19.6% of the time, between 20 and 80 for 57.6%, and below 20 for 22.8%.
| Band | Share of session | Bars | Separate visits | Median visit | Longest visit | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Above 80 | 19.6% | 54 | 19 | 10 min | 45 min | |
| Between 20 and 80 | 57.6% | 159 | 35 | 15 min | 125 min | |
| Below 20 | 22.8% | 63 | 15 | 15 min | 70 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 10 minutes and a longest of 45. 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.