So I got some bonus from bybit.
I longed btc at first with 50x leverage (you do that with 'free' money), but since it was on the rise for last few days, thought it will dip and closed the long, opened short.
Got liquidated soon after.
Had I not closed the long, I would be in several double digit thousands of dollars profit today.
Rip
And how did you come to the conclusion of putting "Short" your position? did you have any intuition? I say this because intuitions are often successful, Jesse Livermore in his book "Memoirs of a Stockbroker" talks about intuitions that go against all odds and on several occasions it worked for him.
If now what you were expecting was a quick correction, were you assuming a bullish trap? Anyway, if it was "free money" it represented money, you have to give it the respective importance, the same in trading every day you learn, this is like a university career that prepares you to be more professional every time. The important thing is that you understood what your mistake was and that is a great teaching. Many enter trading gambling, and they are lucky and win, but they do not learn from their mistakes, there is no feedback, it is more difficult because they do not grow in knowledge, and the more they try to understand the market the more likely they will generate profits.