I use these exact techniques to trade
the bullish engulfing pattern as well.
I prefer to use price action signals like the hammer (with confirmation and pullback) or
bullish engulfing pattern as an entry trigger for this pattern.
In the example below, I used
a bullish engulfing pattern as my entry trigger.
Not exact matches
In the example above, we took a
bullish engulfing candlestick
pattern as our entry.
With the
bullish divergence, a
bullish engulfing candlestick
pattern formed and we bought (
as shown by the green arrow).
I love the
engulfing strategy the most, and actually just look at
bullish / bearish
engulfing pattern (
as a beginner)... but I have 1 question for you.
I'm defining a
bullish engulfing candlestick
pattern as one in which the
bullish real body of a candle
engulfs the bearish real body of the previous candle.
As such, a true bearish
engulfing pattern will only come after a
bullish movement in price (consecutive higher highs).