One important skill as a forex trader is the ability to spot reversal patterns when they form.
One of the popular reversal patterns is the bullish engulfing pattern and the bullish engulfing pattern forex trading strategy is built around that pattern.
Engulfing patterns work well with price action trading.
This pattern consists of 2 candlesticks, the first one is bearish and the second one is bullish.
The important thing is the fact that the second bullish candlestick “engulfs” the bearish candlestick before it.
Here is an example of a bullish engulfing pattern:
Currency Pairs: Any
Timeframes: 15minutes and above
Forex Indicators: none are required.
BULLISH ENGULFING PATTERNS IN ACTION
A few examples shown on the chart below, notice how the formation of bullish engulfing pattern results in price moving upward?:
The Best Location For The Bullish Engulfing Pattern
You should not take a buy trade on every single bullish engulfing pattern you see on your charts.
The location of the engulfing pattern is very critical.
You should only be looking to buy when the bullish engulfing pattern forms on these levels:
- support levels and these include resistance-turned-support levels
- on upward trendline bounces.
- on Fibonacci retracement levels
TRADING RULES For The Engulfing Pattern
- Watch the support levels, trendline bounces, and fib retracement levels.
- when you spot a bullish engulfing pattern, you can either buy at the market or place a pending buy stop order 1-2 pips above the high of the engulfing candlestick (2nd candlestick)
- Place your stop loss 2-3 pips below the low of the 2nd candlestick.
- set your take profit target levels 3 times what you risked. Say if your stop-loss is 60 pips then aim for a profit target of 180 pips.
You can trade other financial markets like synthetic indices, stocks and cryptocurrencies using the bullish engulfing strategy.
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