Educational reference. Measured from 1380 recorded 1m bars of NQ (E mini Nasdaq 100) on Wednesday, October 14, 2026.
Fast Stochastics %K crossed above 80 72 separate times during the session, and the typical visit lasted 2 minutes. Across the whole session it sat above 80 for 15.8% of the time, between 20 and 80 for 54.6%, and below 20 for 29.6%.
| Band | Share of session | Bars | Separate visits | Median visit | Longest visit | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Above 80 | 15.8% | 218 | 72 | 2 min | 14 min | |
| Between 20 and 80 | 54.6% | 754 | 181 | 3 min | 18 min | |
| Below 20 | 29.6% | 408 | 111 | 2 min | 16 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 72 times, with a median stay of 2 minutes and a longest of 14. 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.