Educational reference. Measured from 70 recorded 5m bars of NQ (E mini Nasdaq 100) on Sunday, October 18, 2026.
Fast Stochastics %K crossed above 80 10 separate times during the session, and the typical visit lasted 15 minutes. Across the whole session it sat above 80 for 64.3% of the time, between 20 and 80 for 35.7%, and below 20 for 0.0%.
| Band | Share of session | Bars | Separate visits | Median visit | Longest visit | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Above 80 | 64.3% | 45 | 10 | 15 min | 70 min | |
| Between 20 and 80 | 35.7% | 25 | 9 | 10 min | 50 min | |
| Below 20 | 0.0% | 0 | 0 | 0 min | 0 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 10 times, with a median stay of 15 minutes and a longest of 70. 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.