Labels:text | screenshot | font OCR: The stochastics oscillator compares securities price closed relative to trading range over the last x-time its periods. The stochastics oscillator requires four parameters : 1: ZK Periods: This is the number of time periods_used calculation [default = 5]. the_stochastic 2. ZK Slowing periods: This value cont- rols the internal smoothing of %K. A value of 1 is considered a fast stochas- tic; the default value of 3 is considered a slow stochastic.