Educational reference. Measured from 276 recorded 5m bars of NQ (E mini Nasdaq 100) on Wednesday, October 7, 2026.
Fast Stochastics %K crossed above 80 24 separate times during the session, and the typical visit lasted 7 minutes. Across the whole session it sat above 80 for 20.3% of the time, between 20 and 80 for 59.8%, and below 20 for 19.9%.
| Band | Share of session | Bars | Separate visits | Median visit | Longest visit | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Above 80 | 20.3% | 56 | 24 | 7 min | 45 min | |
| Between 20 and 80 | 59.8% | 165 | 39 | 10 min | 155 min | |
| Below 20 | 19.9% | 55 | 16 | 17 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 24 times, with a median stay of 7 minutes and a longest of 45. 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.