Educational reference. Measured from 276 recorded 5m bars of NQ (E-mini Nasdaq 100) on Wednesday, September 23, 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 17.0% of the time, between 20 and 80 for 60.1%, and below 20 for 22.8%.
| Band | Share of session | Bars | Separate visits | Median visit | Longest visit | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Above 80 | 17.0% | 47 | 17 | 10 min | 50 min | |
| Between 20 and 80 | 60.1% | 166 | 45 | 15 min | 65 min | |
| Below 20 | 22.8% | 63 | 29 | 5 min | 60 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 50. 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.