Does the Bullish Engulfing work on Bitcoin?

On Bitcoin's daily chart, after a bullish engulfing Bitcoin rose within 7 days 54% of the time across 145 past cases. On an ordinary day it did so 53% of the time.

No edge: a coin flipIndistinguishable from an ordinary day on this coin. Most patterns land here.
On BitcoinNo edge
54% of 145 casesbaseline 53%
All coinsNo edge
45% of 14,571 casesbaseline 46%
Median move after the pattern +0.98% vs +0.50% from any bar; after a 0.2% round trip of fees +0.78%.

Daily chart

WithinBitcoinOrdinary barCasesAll coinsVerdict
24 hours47% (40%–54%)51%19048% vs 48%No edge
30 days49% (38%–61%)55%6943% vs 42%No edge
7 days54% (46%–62%)53%14545% vs 46%No edge

4-hour chart

WithinBitcoinOrdinary barCasesAll coinsVerdict
24 hours50% (46%–54%)52%67548% vs 49%No edge
7 days56% (50%–62%)54%25748% vs 48%No edge

1-hour chart

WithinBitcoinOrdinary barCasesAll coinsVerdict
24 hours53% (50%–56%)52%85649% vs 50%No edge
4 hours51% (49%–53%)51%175048% vs 50%No edge

How this is measured: each occurrence is counted from the bar where the pattern became knowable, overlapping cases are dropped, and the result is compared with how often Bitcoin moved the same way from any random bar over the same window. A pattern only earns "beat the baseline" when the difference is larger than luck explains across all the tests we run. Full method.

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