I also take big hit with shorting monero when it was pumped. Recovery will be slow but even bad days sometimes happend.
Yeah, you cannot predict a pump and i have decided not to short again after i get out of this one, it's too dangerous.
I've closed ETH position and took 0.18230488 btc profit
http://prntscr.com/caknfq You can see i had to do some negative shorting at 1888 only to free myself some space on Monero.
Now i can dedicate all the fund for buying and shorting Monero to get a better base price and finally sell it. Yesterday i did some buying and shorting and managed to get base price from 53000 to 59000, this is the current sucky situation
http://prntscr.com/cakp2r