Educational reference. Measured from 228 recorded 5m bars of NQ (E-mini Nasdaq 100) on Monday, September 7, 2026.
Fast Stochastics %K crossed above 80 16 separate times during the session, and the typical visit lasted 17 minutes. Across the whole session it sat above 80 for 31.6% of the time, between 20 and 80 for 48.7%, and below 20 for 19.7%.
| Band | Share of session | Bars | Separate visits | Median visit | Longest visit | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Above 80 | 31.6% | 72 | 16 | 17 min | 60 min | |
| Between 20 and 80 | 48.7% | 111 | 36 | 10 min | 50 min | |
| Below 20 | 19.7% | 45 | 20 | 5 min | 25 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 16 times, with a median stay of 17 minutes and a longest of 60. 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.