Samuel Abitbol
Samuel Abitbol
Samuel Abitbol (born 2003) is a professional trader, portfolio manager, and investor specializing in volatility-driven strategies within digital asset markets. He serves as Head Trader at Viridia Capital, where he leads the design, execution, and ongoing development of the firm's trading strategies while overseeing portfolio construction and risk frameworks. In this role, Abitbol has played a central part in scaling the fund's operations, expanding assets under management alongside partners, and transitioning Viridia Capital toward a more institutional investment structure through systematic strategy development, derivatives-based execution, and disciplined capital deployment.
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| Born | 2003 Montreal, Quebec, Canada |
| Occupation | Head Trader, Portfolio Manager, Investor |
| Known for | Volatility-driven strategies, Viridia Capital |
| Positions | Head Trader, Viridia Capital Chief Investment Officer, Hillson Group |
| Website | samuelabitbol.com |
| Profiles | LinkedIn X (Twitter) Medium Book a meeting |
Overview
Samuel Abitbol is a high-performing and analytically driven market participant with experience across multiple market regimes. His work centers on derivatives, volatility, and structured portfolio management. He has managed client capital professionally since 2023 through Viridia Capital, which gained its name in October 2024, and has demonstrated consistent performance across both discretionary and systematic trading approaches.
Early life and education
Samuel Abitbol was born and raised in Montreal, Canada and developed an early interest in financial markets and investing shortly after completing high school. His initial exposure to markets coincided with the rapid expansion of digital assets and online trading platforms, which played a formative role in shaping his interest in trading, market structure, and investment strategy.
He began studying financial markets independently in mid-2020, focusing on equities before expanding into cryptocurrency markets, where he found his strengths and passion. During this period, Abitbol devoted significant time to self-directed education, studying technical analysis, derivatives, market behavior, and risk management through a combination of formal resources, market participation, and continuous research.
Rather than following a traditional academic finance track, Abitbol's education was largely experiential and market-driven, with an emphasis on applied learning and real-time execution. This early practical approach laid the foundation for his later professional work in portfolio management.
Career
Viridia Capital
Abitbol serves as Head Trader at Viridia Capital, where he is responsible for portfolio construction, trade execution, and risk management. His strategy is primarily long/short and volatility-driven, utilizing derivatives such as perpetual futures and options to express asymmetric market views.
As of 2025, he manages seven-figure assets under management. In 2024, the strategy delivered net returns of 245%, followed by a 74% net return in 2025, net of fees. His approach emphasizes disciplined risk controls, dynamic position sizing, and adaptability to changing market conditions.
Hillson Group
In parallel with his work at Viridia Capital, Abitbol holds the position of Chief Investment Officer at Hillson Group. In this role, he oversees portfolio management for private clients and high-net-worth individuals.
His responsibilities include investment strategy design, client relationship management, and supporting partners in private equity and strategic investment initiatives across multiple jurisdictions.
Research and market analysis
Earlier in his career, Abitbol worked as a freelance market research analyst, providing cryptocurrency futures analysis and market commentary to a global audience on several platforms.
His research was distributed across more than 85 channels, reaching over 500,000 participants. He later produced daily and weekly market reports for Trendsetters for 3 years through October 2025, combining technical and fundamental analysis, with an emphasis on clarity, structure, and actionable insight for readers to act on.
Philosophy
Abitbol's trading philosophy is centered on volatility, market structure, and probabilistic decision-making rather than directional forecasting. His approach emphasizes understanding how markets behave across different regimes and constructing strategies designed to remain adaptable as conditions change.
Rather than relying on static predictions, his process focuses on identifying environments where volatility, liquidity, and positioning create favorable opportunity sets. Exposure is adjusted dynamically based on observed market behavior, with strategies structured to respond to both expansionary and contractionary phases in price action.
A defining characteristic of his philosophy is an emphasis on process over outcome. Strategy development, patience, execution discipline, and continuous evaluation are prioritized to ensure consistency over time. Through ongoing refinement and research, Abitbol seeks to build frameworks that remain robust across varying market cycles while allowing for measured evolution as new data and conditions emerge.
Public presence
Abitbol maintains a public professional presence through select online platforms, where he shares information related to his work in trading, strategy, and market structure. His public footprint primarily serves as a reference point for professional background, current initiatives, and ongoing research interests.
He is active on professional networking platforms and maintains an independent web presence associated with Viridia Capital's activities.
- LinkedIn - linkedin.com/in/samuel-abitbol
- X (Twitter) - x.com/emansecretmoney
- Medium (fund articles) - medium.com/@viridiacapital
- Book a meeting - calendly.com/sa-hillson
Trivia
- Thinks in cycles a little too often; markets, history, life... it all starts to look connected after a while.
- Travels for perspective, not just location.
- Somehow turned staring at charts into a career, and calls it "pattern recognition" to make it sound smarter.
- Quietly competitive, mostly with himself.
- Equal parts disciplined and obsessive; routine isn't a preference, it's survival.
- Music is either playing or something is wrong.
- Enjoys the process more than the outcome; just won't admit it mid-trade.
- Low tolerance for surface-level anything; depth tends to win, even if it takes longer.
- Still figuring things out, just with slightly better systems each year.
Current and future focus
Abitbol's current focus is on the development of scalable investment platforms and strategies designed to operate across evolving market environments. His work increasingly emphasizes the build-out of durable technical and operational infrastructure to support systematic decision-making and disciplined capital deployment at scale.
Looking ahead, his efforts are directed toward expanding Viridia Capital and refining volatility-driven frameworks through deeper research, improved execution systems, and more resilient portfolio construction. Beyond near-term growth, his broader objective is to contribute to the maturation of digital asset investment management by aligning advanced trading methodologies with institutional standards and long-duration investment horizons.
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