1. Author graphed his daily returns which should give you a handle on his volatility. He also stated his max drawdown was $2k.

2. Author has stated elsewhere than he began with $10k in seed capital.

3. The "bullish" market you cite increased only about %70 in that timeframe while the author's returns were multiples of that number.

4. Author walked away from a _previously successful_ strategy that no longer produced profits. His montlhy returns went to nearly zero so he stopped.

Edited to fix numbers.