Engulfing patterns -- there is a bullish and bearish engulfing pattern. A bullish engulfing pattern is comprised of a large whie real body which engulfs a small black real body in a downtrend.The bullish engulfing pattern is an important bottom reversal. A bearish engulfing pattern (a major top reversal pattern), occurs when selling pressure overwhelms buying pressure as refleccted by a long black real body engulfing a small white real body in an uptrend.