Question: What would be the strategies when Engulfing pattern of Candlestick Chart appears on MT4?
Here is an example of strategies for Engulfing with Stochastics and LWMA(20), when during the course of a decline, the appearance of the Engulfing pattern filtered by Stochastics at the oversold area.
One could consider buying when the next candle exceeds the high price of the pattern.
Place a protective stop loss at the bottom of the pattern.
You can consider the following actions, bearing in mind that a Take-Profit strategy is heavily dependent on the trading profile of each individual.
- Close 60% of the position when price travels 100% the length of the pattern.
- Close the remaining 20% when price reaches the 200% of the length of the pattern.
- Move the protective stop-loss at the top of the pattern.
- Close 10% of the remaining of the position when price reaches 300% of the length of the pattern.
- Close the remaining 10% of the position at the presence of a reversal candlestick or when price closes below the LWMA(20) or when the price travels 400% of the length of the pattern, whichever happens first.
- Other combinations may be applied