Educational reference. Measured from 205 recorded 5m bars of NQ (E-mini Nasdaq 100) on Friday, September 11, 2026.
Fast Stochastics %K crossed above 80 19 separate times during the session, and the typical visit lasted 10 minutes. Across the whole session it sat above 80 for 28.8% of the time, between 20 and 80 for 62.0%, and below 20 for 9.3%.
| Band | Share of session | Bars | Separate visits | Median visit | Longest visit | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Above 80 | 28.8% | 59 | 19 | 10 min | 55 min | |
| Between 20 and 80 | 62.0% | 127 | 31 | 15 min | 60 min | |
| Below 20 | 9.3% | 19 | 12 | 5 min | 20 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 19 times, with a median stay of 10 minutes and a longest of 55. 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.