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Bearish engulfing on Mastercard

On Mastercard the bearish engulfing showed up 45 times. The target came first 38% of the time, the stop 58%, and 4% went nowhere within 12 candles.

Counted on Mastercard: daily candles from January 2015 and hourly candles from October 2024.

By timeframe

TimeframeFoundTarget firstStop firstWent nowhere
Daily1724%71%6%
Hourly2846%50%4%

Mastercard against the rest

ChartsFoundTarget firstStop firstWent nowhere
Mastercard4538%58%4%
All US stock market charts1,35937%61%2%
Every market19,16535%58%8%

Year by year

YearFoundTarget firstStop first
201740%100%
201830%100%
20251362%38%
20261429%64%

The last 8 times

Counted by the Trading Class research engine on real past candles: entry at the signal candle's close, target 1.5 × ATR(14), stop 1 × ATR(14), 12 candles to decide, a candle that touches both counts as the stop. How we count. Past data, not a forecast and not advice.

What the bearish engulfing is

A red body swallows the green one before it. Sellers took control.

Picture a small green fish, then a bigger red fish that swallows it whole. In a bearish engulfing pattern, the red candle's body is so big it covers the whole green body before it. After a rise, it shows sellers suddenly took over.

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Other patterns on Mastercard

Inside bar · Stochastic bearish cross · Stochastic bullish cross · Spinning top · MACD bearish cross · Doji · Gap down · Gap up · MACD bullish cross · EMA 9/21 bullish cross · all of them

The bearish engulfing elsewhere

Dow Jones · S&P 500 · Nasdaq 100 · Alibaba · Tesla · Broadcom · Oracle · Nvidia · Microsoft · Meta · Sensex · Nifty 50 · Nikkei 225 · Sony · GBP/USD · EUR/JPY · Gold · Silver

Questions

How often does the bearish engulfing work on Mastercard?

In 45 cases on Mastercard, the target (1.5 × ATR) came before the stop (1 × ATR) 38% of the time and the stop came first 58%; 4% went nowhere within 12 candles.

What is the bearish engulfing?

A red body swallows the green one before it. Sellers took control.