The first candlestick of the pattern can be a Doji candlestick while the second one can be a Marubozu candlestick .

Being a pattern just opposite of Bullish Engulfing candlestick pattern , it recommends you to sell the current position while bullish engulfing patern suggests you to buy the stocks.After a bearish engulfing pattern appears, you may also do trade by short-selling technique.
Studying the Bullish engulfing pattern
It is preferable if the Bearish candlestick of the pattern has a long real body with a small lower shadow.As the body length is long, it signifies that the price had been significantly depleted below the opening price and the short wick suggests that there is not much difference between opening and lowest price of session which makes it more likely to have the next candle to be a Bearish candle.One more thing to take note is that more are the preceding bullish candlesticks before the pattern, more is the chance of trend reversal. Bearish engulfing pattern becomes more significant and likely to show trend reversals if preceded by 4 or more green/white candlesticks.
Trading or working with Bearish engulfing pattern
You are always adviced to never make a trade solely based on candlestick pattern. Though, if you decide to trade by observig any pattern you should look for any other signal or indicator as a confirmation.If the candle next to the Bearish engulfing pattern opens Gapped-down , it is a very good sign for the pattern . As a Bearish candlestick pattern, you should consider it as a reversal pattern only if it appears during a clear downward trend ,otherwise it can just be a continuation pattern. It is not of much significance during a choppy market .
Stop-loss - Talking about the stop loss than it can be placed at the topmost point of the first candle of pattern.Though ,it is totally up to you about what amount of risk you can take and thus put the stop-loss.
