# Bearish engulfing near the highs — NSE scan

> A bearish engulfing candle within 3% of the 52-week high — a rejection where it counts.

Canonical: https://patternsradar.com/screener/bearish-engulfing-resistance

```sift
where pattern is bearish_engulfing
  and close within 3% of high_52w
```

The same location argument as its bullish twin, inverted. An engulfing candle in the middle of a range is noise; one printed while the stock is testing its yearly high is a visible failure at a level plenty of people are watching.

Category: [Patterns](https://patternsradar.com/scans/candlestick-patterns.md). Default universe: top 500 NSE stocks by 20-day turnover.

The rendered page runs this scan against the latest session and can replay it across the last 250 sessions to measure its hit rate: https://patternsradar.com/screener/bearish-engulfing-resistance.