One important skill as a a forex trader is the ability to spot reversal patterns when they form. One of the popular reversal pattern is the bullish engulfing pattern and the bullish engulfing pattern forex trading strategy is built around that pattern.
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?:
NOT ALL BULLISH ENGULFING PATTERNS ARE CREATED EQUAL
What do I mean by that? It simply means that you should not try to take a buy trade on every single bullish engulfing pattern you see on your charts.
That’s is pointless.
Just like in real estate, they say ” location, location, location.”
Similarly, with the bullish engulfing pattern, the location where the bullish engulfing pattern forms is mega important.
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 retracment levels
TRADING RULES
- Watch the support levels, trendline bounces, and fib retracment 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 you stop loss 2-3 pips below the low of the 2nd candlestick.
- set your take profit target levels 3 times the what you risked. Say if your stop loss is 60 pips then aim for a profit target of 180 pips.
HOW TO COMBINE THIS PATTERN WITH OTHER FOREX TRADING STRATEGIES
As you can see, this is an easy reversal pattern and if you are using other forex trading strategies on this site or others, just use a little bit of imagination and incorporate the bullish reversal candlestick chart pattern into the strategy that you are using.
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