Educational reference. Measured from 276 recorded 5m bars of NQ (E-mini Nasdaq 100) on Wednesday, September 16, 2026.
Fast Stochastics %K crossed above 80 22 separate times during the session, and the typical visit lasted 10 minutes. Across the whole session it sat above 80 for 30.8% of the time, between 20 and 80 for 55.1%, and below 20 for 14.1%.
| Band | Share of session | Bars | Separate visits | Median visit | Longest visit | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Above 80 | 30.8% | 85 | 22 | 10 min | 125 min | |
| Between 20 and 80 | 55.1% | 152 | 41 | 10 min | 70 min | |
| Below 20 | 14.1% | 39 | 19 | 5 min | 40 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 22 times, with a median stay of 10 minutes and a longest of 125. 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.