You avoided because of your previous failures with energy stocks...

You avoided because of your previous failures with energy stocks because of its cyclicity. I said this time was different, and I still believe it is. The prices were rising well before the Ukraine war, there's been minimal investment in the sector since the early 2010's. OPEC can't even hit their oil output targets, so the fundamentals are still there I believe, and there will be further opportunities to get back in, possibly even at lower prices. We need to see where the market takes us but atm it's not looking good. I could've made more yes, but I've more than doubled my money on WHC and NHC so I'm not complaining. I will sit on the sidelines and wait.

Unless you're an expert technical trader you can't exactly predict the top and bottom. I set a 15% trailing stop loss, I could've set a tighter stop loss, but then I would've sold out ages ago. So it gives plenty of room for a stock to move in this sector (which is volatile enough...today proves that).