I should mention that in the engulfing pattern above, the red candle (1st candle) had no bottom wick.
This is unimportant - the body-to-body relationship take precedence over wick relationships.
Therefore, candle bodies can be of 2 kinds in a long engulfing pattern :
1) The green candle body is longer on both ends than the red candle body.
2) The green candle body is longer on the top but level with the red body on the bottom.
In the case of "level", the wicks become important and the lower green candle wick needs to be longer than the lower red wick.
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