The energy sector has gone from worst to first.

After trailing the S&P 500’s different main inventory teams in 2020, power has emerged as a pacesetter this yr, far outperforming its counterparts with a 25% achieve. It is also the highest performer this month, up practically 21%.

The sharp reversal has “caught lots of people abruptly,” Craig Johnson, senior technical analysis analyst at Piper Sandler, instructed CNBC’s “Trading Nation” on Friday.

Now, they’re making an attempt to determine whether or not the run is for actual, he stated.

“If we come again and we have a look at a chart of, say, the XLE, it is at a really fascinating inflection level,” he stated, referring to the Vitality Choose Sector SPDR Fund, which tracks the group.

“You have made a really good double-bottom low and it appears to be like like … we’re getting very near reversing,” Johnson stated. “I believe from right here, folks have so as to add power publicity — begrudgingly.”

Although the group stays a small a part of most benchmarks, “you have to purchase the power sector and a minimum of begin including to…