Engulfing reversal (ENGULF-REV)

How the setup is identified

Enters on a classical engulfing candle — a bar whose body completely covers the previous bar's body in the opposite direction.

Status and evidence

Zero fires in live trading.

What we learned

Zero fires in live trading. The engulfing pattern is among the most-taught candlestick signals, and on a one-minute gold chart it occurs constantly, which means the additional gates in the chain were doing the filtering.

Candlestick patterns in general suffer from a definitional problem: what counts as engulfing depends on whether you compare bodies or full ranges, and on which timeframe. That sensitivity is not a good foundation for an automated rule.