Educational reference. Measured from 273 recorded 5m bars of NQ (E-mini Nasdaq 100) on Monday, September 21, 2026.
Fast Stochastics %K crossed above 80 20 separate times during the session, and the typical visit lasted 15 minutes. Across the whole session it sat above 80 for 46.5% of the time, between 20 and 80 for 45.1%, and below 20 for 8.4%.
| Band | Share of session | Bars | Separate visits | Median visit | Longest visit | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Above 80 | 46.5% | 127 | 20 | 15 min | 145 min | |
| Between 20 and 80 | 45.1% | 123 | 32 | 12 min | 125 min | |
| Below 20 | 8.4% | 23 | 12 | 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 20 times, with a median stay of 15 minutes and a longest of 145. 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.