Educational reference. Measured from 276 recorded 5m bars of NQ (E mini Nasdaq 100) on Monday, October 12, 2026.
Fast Stochastics %K crossed above 80 13 separate times during the session, and the typical visit lasted 10 minutes. Across the whole session it sat above 80 for 9.4% of the time, between 20 and 80 for 57.2%, and below 20 for 33.3%.
| Band | Share of session | Bars | Separate visits | Median visit | Longest visit | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Above 80 | 9.4% | 26 | 13 | 10 min | 25 min | |
| Between 20 and 80 | 57.2% | 158 | 47 | 10 min | 65 min | |
| Below 20 | 33.3% | 92 | 34 | 5 min | 75 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 13 times, with a median stay of 10 minutes and a longest of 25. 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.