CDLENGULFING

Summary

A two-candle reversal pattern where the second candle's real body engulfs the first candle's opposite-colored real body. Bullish (white engulfs black) or bearish (black engulfs white) reversal signal. Bullish reversal at +100/+80, bearish at -100/-80; ideally after a downtrend (bullish) or uptrend (bearish), which the code does not verify.

Notes

Does not verify the prior trend (down for bullish, up for bearish) the reversal classically assumes.

Inputs

inOpen — Open price of each bar
inHigh — High price of each bar
inLow — Low price of each bar
inClose — Close price of each bar

Outputs

outInteger — +100/+80 (bullish, white engulfs black), -100/-80 (bearish, black engulfs white), 0 otherwise. Magnitude 100 when the second body strictly engulfs both ends; 80 when the bodies share an exact endpoint (open[i]==close[i-1] or close[i]==open[i-1])

Properties

Numerical Stability: Start-Independent

Display Flags
☐ Overlap Input
✅ Independent Y-Axis i
✅ Candlestick i

Implementation

TA-Lib Definition: cdlengulfing.c · cdlengulfing.yaml

Native	File
C	`ta_CDLENGULFING.c`
Rust	`cdlengulfing.rs`
Java	`Core_CDLENGULFING.java`

TA-Lib is also available for Python, R and more using a wrapper.

Aliases

Engulfing Pattern, Engulfing, Bullish/Bearish Engulfing