Educational reference. Measured from 276 recorded 5m bars of NQ (E-mini Nasdaq 100) on Thursday, October 1, 2026.
Fast Stochastics %K crossed above 80 16 separate times during the session, and the typical visit lasted 12 minutes. Across the whole session it sat above 80 for 24.6% of the time, between 20 and 80 for 59.4%, and below 20 for 15.9%.
| Band | Share of session | Bars | Separate visits | Median visit | Longest visit | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Above 80 | 24.6% | 68 | 16 | 12 min | 110 min | |
| Between 20 and 80 | 59.4% | 164 | 33 | 10 min | 150 min | |
| Below 20 | 15.9% | 44 | 17 | 10 min | 55 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 16 times, with a median stay of 12 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.