Educational reference. Measured from 276 recorded 5m bars of NQ (E mini Nasdaq 100) on Thursday, October 8, 2026.
Fast Stochastics %K crossed above 80 17 separate times during the session, and the typical visit lasted 15 minutes. Across the whole session it sat above 80 for 25.0% of the time, between 20 and 80 for 49.3%, and below 20 for 25.7%.
| Band | Share of session | Bars | Separate visits | Median visit | Longest visit | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Above 80 | 25.0% | 69 | 17 | 15 min | 105 min | |
| Between 20 and 80 | 49.3% | 136 | 34 | 15 min | 50 min | |
| Below 20 | 25.7% | 71 | 18 | 15 min | 65 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 15 minutes and a longest of 105. 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.