I was using 100x leverage but the "pot" wasn't high enough for that risk. Which was disapointing because they'd have made a nice profit going the other way
. The 52x leverage was the extent of the size of the pot or the people I was betting against.
I was experimenting with a few strategies to double my money with a small amount (making an almost guarenteed 20% profit gets boring now and then haha)... The point being that, like leo said, it's best to set a stop loss higher than the forced liquidation as I'd have kept 48% of my pot by doing that (which wasn't much to start with so there's that at least).
Since I'm on the topic of bitmex, does anyone know how to stop it from timing me out on the website login session. I don't have time to configure or build a bot atm?