Final 12 months’s worst is now this 12 months’s finest.

Vitality is the top-performing sector now, up almost 15% since Jan. 1 amid falling U.S. crude oil inventories. The group suffered a horrible 2020, shedding over 37%.

Although power’s long-term outlook is dimming, the sector is not void of alternative, Mark Tepper, president and CEO of Strategic Wealth Companions, advised CNBC’s “Trading Nation” on Tuesday.

“It is a very tough sector,” Tepper mentioned. “In my view, I feel that is not a buy-and-hold sector. It is extra of a commerce. I do not care what timeframe you employ — three years, 5 years, 10 years — the power sector has been underperforming the S&P over any of these time frames by double digits annualized.”

That ought to proceed as clear power adoption accelerates, however within the meantime, there seems to be one doubtlessly worthwhile commerce within the making, Tepper mentioned.

“Here is the chance: Oil has discovered help. Sadly, it is due to a discount in provide relatively than a rise in…