Educational reference. Measured from 276 recorded 5m bars of MNQ (Micro E mini Nasdaq 100) on Wednesday, October 7, 2026.
Fast Stochastics %K crossed above 80 28 separate times during the session, and the typical visit lasted 7 minutes. Across the whole session it sat above 80 for 21.7% of the time, between 20 and 80 for 58.7%, and below 20 for 19.6%.
| Band | Share of session | Bars | Separate visits | Median visit | Longest visit | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Above 80 | 21.7% | 60 | 28 | 7 min | 45 min | |
| Between 20 and 80 | 58.7% | 162 | 45 | 10 min | 125 min | |
| Below 20 | 19.6% | 54 | 18 | 15 min | 35 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 28 times, with a median stay of 7 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.