Beginner · Candlestick & chart patterns
Bearish Engulfing
What it means
Sellers have overwhelmed buyers, erasing the whole of the previous up session in one move and indicating a potential reversal downward.
At a glance
- Directional bias
- Bearish reversal
- Sessions to form
- 2 consecutive sessions
- Curriculum tier
- Beginner
- Pattern family
- engulfing
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Practise Bearish Engulfing in the SimulatorRelated patterns
Bullish Engulfing
bullishBuyers have overwhelmed sellers, erasing the whole of the previous down session in one move and indicating a potential reversal upward.
Doji
indecisionPrice travelled through the session and closed right back where it opened, so neither buyers nor sellers won and the current trend has lost its conviction.
Hammer
bullishSellers forced price sharply lower and buyers bought all of it back before the close, rejecting the lower prices and hinting at a potential floor.
Morning Star
bullishA strong down session is followed by a small-bodied pause and then a strong up session, showing selling pressure fading and buyers taking over at a potential bottom.
Evening Star
bearishA strong up session is followed by a small-bodied pause and then a strong down session, showing buying pressure fading and sellers taking over at a potential top.
Shooting Star
bearishBuyers pushed price sharply higher but sellers drove it back down to close near the open, rejecting the highs and hinting at a potential top after an advance.
Educational reference only. This describes what traders conventionally read into the Bearish Engulfing formation. It is not a trading signal, a prediction or investment advice, and no pattern is reliable on its own. Finance Onyx is a simulated educational platform: all practice uses virtual capital and no order is ever routed to a broker or an exchange.