Summary: directional move up or down Day two must be the other color and engulfing That means in a down trend a bearish candle is followed by a lower open and a higher close and vice versa The most common identification mistakes are directional and size First of all it is not possible to have a Bullish Engulfing Pattern in an uptrend and or vice versa It is not hard to
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