Educational reference. Measured from 276 recorded 5m bars of NQ (E-mini Nasdaq 100) on Tuesday, October 6, 2026.
Fast Stochastics %K crossed above 80 21 separate times during the session, and the typical visit lasted 15 minutes. Across the whole session it sat above 80 for 22.8% of the time, between 20 and 80 for 63.8%, and below 20 for 13.4%.
| Band | Share of session | Bars | Separate visits | Median visit | Longest visit | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Above 80 | 22.8% | 63 | 21 | 15 min | 40 min | |
| Between 20 and 80 | 63.8% | 176 | 39 | 20 min | 65 min | |
| Below 20 | 13.4% | 37 | 18 | 5 min | 35 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 21 times, with a median stay of 15 minutes and a longest of 40. 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.