Educational reference. Measured from 276 recorded 5m bars of NQ (E-mini Nasdaq 100) on Thursday, September 3, 2026.
Fast Stochastics %K crossed above 80 26 separate times during the session, and the typical visit lasted 10 minutes. Across the whole session it sat above 80 for 30.4% of the time, between 20 and 80 for 47.5%, and below 20 for 22.1%.
| Band | Share of session | Bars | Separate visits | Median visit | Longest visit | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Above 80 | 30.4% | 84 | 26 | 10 min | 85 min | |
| Between 20 and 80 | 47.5% | 131 | 40 | 15 min | 65 min | |
| Below 20 | 22.1% | 61 | 14 | 15 min | 60 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 26 times, with a median stay of 10 minutes and a longest of 85. 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.