Educational reference. Measured from 204 recorded 5m bars of NQ (E-mini Nasdaq 100) on Friday, September 18, 2026.
Fast Stochastics %K crossed above 80 13 separate times during the session, and the typical visit lasted 25 minutes. Across the whole session it sat above 80 for 44.1% of the time, between 20 and 80 for 36.3%, and below 20 for 19.6%.
| Band | Share of session | Bars | Separate visits | Median visit | Longest visit | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Above 80 | 44.1% | 90 | 13 | 25 min | 75 min | |
| Between 20 and 80 | 36.3% | 74 | 29 | 10 min | 65 min | |
| Below 20 | 19.6% | 40 | 17 | 5 min | 45 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 13 times, with a median stay of 25 minutes and a longest of 75. 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.