Educational reference. Measured from 92 recorded 15m bars of NQ (E mini Nasdaq 100) on Tuesday, October 20, 2026.
Fast Stochastics %K crossed above 80 6 separate times during the session, and the typical visit lasted 30 minutes. Across the whole session it sat above 80 for 18.5% of the time, between 20 and 80 for 66.3%, and below 20 for 15.2%.
| Band | Share of session | Bars | Separate visits | Median visit | Longest visit | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Above 80 | 18.5% | 17 | 6 | 30 min | 90 min | |
| Between 20 and 80 | 66.3% | 61 | 14 | 60 min | 210 min | |
| Below 20 | 15.2% | 14 | 8 | 22 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 6 times, with a median stay of 30 minutes and a longest of 90. 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.