You were setting yourself up for failure if you stuck with crude over the summer. Wait until the Saudis cut production to defend price levels and we will see some real upward movement in American energy stocks. Still a good long-term investment IMO.
There's horrendous liquidity in the EPE options market, so I was stuck in a covered call that made it seem not worth buying to close at the time... in retrospect...
It's still a fundamentally decent stock and technically it's oversold, so I bought 10 $17.5 Feb options today. Double down.