Educational reference. Measured from 276 recorded 5m bars of NQ (E-mini Nasdaq 100) on Tuesday, September 15, 2026.
Fast Stochastics %K crossed above 80 17 separate times during the session, and the typical visit lasted 10 minutes. Across the whole session it sat above 80 for 23.9% of the time, between 20 and 80 for 58.7%, and below 20 for 17.4%.
| Band | Share of session | Bars | Separate visits | Median visit | Longest visit | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Above 80 | 23.9% | 66 | 17 | 10 min | 110 min | |
| Between 20 and 80 | 58.7% | 162 | 35 | 20 min | 90 min | |
| Below 20 | 17.4% | 48 | 20 | 10 min | 35 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 17 times, with a median stay of 10 minutes and a longest of 110. 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.