How do I safely recover my losses, preferably over a short period of time?
First is you have to chill up, take things slowly. Second is, you don't have to set a period of time to recuperate your losses, you have to take your time and not rush things out to perform your strategy smoothly. If you last strategy didn't work out, then you have to improve it by studying more and focus only on certain coins to avoid overloading your brain. You need also to to set an amount of how much you can lost to avoid losing even more.
For example is if you're entering on a price of $19,000, and the price decreases in $18,900 then you have to sell it then wait for even more dump and wait for another pump to make profits. Because it is risky if you're going to wait for it to pump again after it dropped on $18,900, it might even drop more that'll cause you a loss profit.