Harmonic Solutions exists to close the gap between institutional trading knowledge and active, engaged traders. It turns decades of proprietary trading experience into real education: market insight, strategy, and community, so traders build genuine skills.
Harmonic Academy teaches traders the digital assets they have access to, spot, futures, options, prediction markets, and more, and the strategies built on top of them. Every week, the Opener and Closer blogs narrate what the market is doing and why, in plain English, the raw material for a trader's own macro view. From there, traders learn how to turn that view into action: choosing the strategy that expresses it, and managing the risk that comes with holding it, alongside an active community of traders doing the same. Harmonic teaches; it doesn't solicit. The goal is for active, engaged traders to succeed, because when they succeed, markets get healthier for everyone.
How it works
A Monday setup and Friday debrief every week. What moved, why it moved, and what it means for your positions.
A foundational derivatives curriculum covering the full basics, plus a growing library of lessons spun off from weekly market events.
Podcasts and live Q&A with the Harmonic team, for paid subscribers. Coming soon.
Layer 1: Weekly brief
Two pieces per week. Monday sets the frame, Friday closes it.
Meta, Tesla and Lam Research reported through the AI spending worry. Oil broke $103. What the week delivered and what to watch next.
Read →This week’s earnings from Meta, Tesla and the chip names will decide whether last week’s AI selloff was a one-week break or the start of something bigger.
Read →Core inflation beat expectations, AI stocks led the selloff, and everything reversed by Friday as the market decided the Fed won’t hike into a cracking trade.
Read →The September CPI report arrives mid-week with the Fed meeting two weeks out. How markets respond to the number matters as much as the number itself.
Read →Thursday's bond sale and Treasury buyback settled long-term rates lower — then OpenAI's revenue reset hit risk assets at the same moment.
Read →Short-term rates got the memo on soft jobs data. Long-term rates kept climbing anyway. Four readings this week will show which side blinks.
Read →Payrolls and ISM both came in soft, but bonds didn't rally — and that divergence is the only story that matters going into Q4.
Read →October hike odds climbed to 68.1% over the weekend with no headline behind it. Core PCE Wednesday is the real test; the alt unwind from last week continues.
Read →A hot PMI reading pushed October hike odds to 64.2%, erased the week's Bitcoin rally, and left alts moving the opposite direction entirely.
Read → NO. 31Bitcoin broke the September 4 high in European hours Monday on a real short squeeze, corporate treasuries came back buying, and oil fell a fourth straight session — while the Fed's October hike odds started drifting down from last week's peak.
Read → NO. 30The Fed hiked and signaled more tightening. Bitcoin rallied anyway, almost entirely after the decision, not before it. The real reason sat in two regulatory actions from Thursday.
Read → NO. 29Hike odds hit 92.3%, the 10-year crossed 5% for the first time since 2023, and a real bond rotation is already underway underneath a calm-looking S&P 500.
Read → NO. 28PPI ran hot, core CPI refused to cool, and hike odds climbed to 86.5%. Crypto gave back a little. Stocks, the dollar, and the bond market shrugged.
Read → NO. 27September hike odds sit at 58.6%, paused not resolved. Producer prices Thursday, consumer prices Friday, a day apart — two scheduled numbers replace a week of arguing.
Read → NO. 26Everybody had an opinion on the Fed this week. One Friday morning number made most of the arguing look premature. Here is the full scorecard, the macro chain, and what the Hyperliquid data actually showed.
Read → NO. 25Fed hike odds jumped to 57.5% in one session. Here’s what the bear flattener actually is, four ways it plays out, and what the Hyperliquid read says about where positioning sits right now.
Read → NO. 24Druckenmiller scolded Bessent, Warsh broke his silence at Jackson Hole, and September hike odds jumped to 57.5%. Gold, silver, and crypto gave back ground while stocks held up.
Read → NO. 23The largest short squeeze in crypto's history kept extending through the weekend. Treasury escalated Iran sanctions to economic D-Day. Warsh speaks at Jackson Hole Friday.
Read → NO. 22A Treasury bond buyback decision did what the Fed minutes couldn't. Bitcoin surged 15%, Ethereum 23%, and the largest single day of short liquidations on record accelerated the move.
Read → NO. 21Rate odds kept climbing over the weekend. Bitcoin didn't follow. Fed minutes Wednesday and the first August activity read Friday are the two events that test whether the disconnect closes or extends.
Read → NO. 20Both inflation reports landed soft. Stocks rallied. Bitcoin fell anyway, after Strategy disclosed a second straight week of selling and ETF buyers reversed course.
Read → NO. 19Two weak jobs reports flipped the Fed's calculus back to holding. Iran looks worn out, not just paused. Two inflation prints land back to back this week while rates sit near a coin flip.
Read → NO. 18The hike scare that opened the week unwound on weak hiring. AMD and SpaceX both beat and both got sold. Iran made real progress without a deal. The CLARITY Act is down to a procedural coin flip.
Read → NO. 17Two macro engines pushing risk assets lower, Iran as the release valve for both. Oil fell on the pause, hike odds jumped anyway, and the dollar stayed below 100.
Read → NO. 16Five of six calls landed. Japan broke the dollar below 100. Microsoft and Amazon collected. Meta paid. Bitcoin held through $494M of outflows and barely moved.
Read → NO. 15Diplomacy held over the weekend. Oil dropped $8 from $92 to $84. September rate-increase odds moved one point. The Fed meets Wednesday. Netanyahu meets Trump today.
Read → NO. 14Houthi rebels hit two Saudi tankers. Brent crossed $100. Tesla missed badly. Alphabet beat and fell. Intel broke the pattern. Bitcoin moved $457 on the week.
Read → NO. 13Oil is up $10 from last Sunday's open. The Nasdaq broke below 29,000. Bitcoin is at $64,580. Three weeks into the rotation signal, the divergence is widening.
Read → NO. 12CPI came in at 3.5 percent, well below consensus. Rate increase odds for July 29 collapsed from 33.7 to 10.2 percent within hours. Then three more tests hit. Bitcoin passed all of them.
Read → NO. 11Four rounds of strikes, oil up $2, rate increase odds at 33.7 percent. The market has priced Iran. CPI Tuesday decides whether the rotation gets its green light.
Read → NO. 10Two shocks, two recoveries, and $875 million in liquidations. Bitcoin finished the week within $700 of where it started. Here is what held and what Tuesday CPI decides next.
Read → NO. 09BTC at $63,867, STRC at $87.87, ETF inflows returning. Three conditions from the closer moved in the right direction. Here is what to watch this week and how to think about your position.
Read → NO. 08STRC jumped 21% on the week, MSTR crossed $100, NFP missed badly at 57,000 jobs, and gold ripped $175 off its low. Here is what moved and what to watch next.
Read → NO. 07STRC dividend deadline tomorrow, jobs number Thursday, July 4 weekend Friday. Here is what to watch and how each scenario plays out.
Read → NO. 06STRC under investigation, PCE confirmed the hike narrative, $10.6B in options expired worthless, and BTC broke below $60K for the first time since October 2024.
Read → NO. 05Three weeks ago Saylor sold 32 BTC and the market freaked out. Here is the full story behind why, and why the machine he built to buy Bitcoin is currently switched off.
Read → NO. 04How the week closed after the Fed held rates, what the dollar strength means for BTC, and where the market is positioned heading into next week.
Read → NO. 03BTC at $66,500 after the Iran deal. ETF buyers are driving the move, not leveraged perp longs. Here is what the funding data is actually saying.
Read → NO. 02How the week resolved, where open interest landed, and the carry trade setup heading into next week.
Read → NO. 01A liquidation cascade week, a funding rate story, and what the data says about who actually got wrecked.
Read →Layer 2: Lesson library
Each lesson spins off a market event covered in the weekly brief. Join the Harmonic community to access the full library. More added as the blog grows.
The balanced iron condor. No lean, no favorite, defined risk on both sides.
Deep Dive Lesson 10
Members onlyThe short call credit spread, and the unbalanced iron condor. The market's own skew usually decides between them.
Deep Dive Lesson 9
Members onlyThe short put, the short put credit spread, and the jade lizard — in the order you'd actually reach for them.
Deep Dive Lesson 8
Members onlyCalendar spreads, pairs trades, cross-asset spreads, construction, monitoring, and carry.
Deep Dive Lesson 7
Members onlyBinary risk, open-ended risk, demo trading, win rate, and sizing for an uncertain environment.
Deep Dive Lesson 6
Members onlyStrike selection, expiry, position sizing, rolling rules, and managing the trade in a market that stabilized but has not confirmed direction.
Deep Dive Lesson 5
Members onlyThe framework for reading macro signals — rates, dollar, risk sentiment — and translating them into a directional thesis before the move is obvious.
Deep Dive Lesson 4
Members onlyHow to compare perp funding to expiration basis, calculate BNOC, put on a delta-neutral spread, and borrow dollars against your crypto without a lender.
Deep Dive Lesson 3
Members onlyHow the funding rate is actually calculated, what the four regimes mean, and how to read it as a structural signal before every trade.
Deep Dive Lesson 2
Members onlyThe Understand / Apply / Case Study breakdown of what cascade mechanics look like in real data and how to position around the recovery.
Deep Dive Lesson 1
Layer 2: Interactive tools
Live, interactive dashboards built alongside each lesson. Real market data, real exchange mechanics, no backend required. Join the Harmonic community to access all tools.
Spot-vs-perpetual premium, the current annualized funding rate matched to its regime, and a position-level funding P&L tracker across time horizons.
Lesson 2 Tool
Members onlyBuy spot, sell the derivative against it to earn the spread and collect passive income. Real mechanics and risk per exchange.
Lesson 3 Tool
Members onlySell spot for cash, use part as margin on a long derivative position sized to keep your full original exposure. Real mechanics per exchange.
Lesson 3 Tool
Members onlyLive option board highlighting calls that fit the lesson's own rules: strike 10–15% above spot, expiry 30–60 days out. Build a simulated buy-write with real pricing.
Lesson 5 Tool
Members onlyLive price and funding feed across digital instruments, plus hourly cross-asset correlation.
Lesson 7 Tool
Members onlyPrice a short put, short put credit spread, or jade lizard off a live option chain. Real buying-power-reduction math per exchange.
Lesson 8 Tool
Members onlyBuild a real bearish options position from live pricing. Pick a strategy, pick an expiry, select your strikes, and complete the spread.
Lesson 9 Tool
Members onlyA live interactive dashboard for building and grading a volatility strategy off real options pricing.
Lesson 10 Tool
Layer 2: Reference
Every term used in the weekly briefs, lessons, and curriculum, explained in plain language. No jargon left undefined.
Layer 2: Core curriculum
Nine modules plus a capstone. The foundational groundwork on how derivatives markets actually work. Built by Joe Perry and Jason Thelen from decades of institutional derivatives experience. Join the Harmonic community to access the full series.
How perpetuals, futures, and options are structured. How funding rates work and how to use them as a strategic input. How to size a position around volatility, read open interest as a map of participant behavior, and construct trades with defined risk. The full picture, from mechanics to execution.
What derivatives are, why they exist in crypto markets, and the liquidation mechanism behind the majority of retail losses.
Members onlyHow expiry futures are priced, how basis forms, and what contango and backwardation mean for anyone trading carry.
Members onlyCalls, puts, strike selection, and how options let you define your maximum loss before the trade is on.
Members onlyHow binary event contracts price probability and what they reveal about institutional positioning ahead of macro events.
Members onlyHow to hold market exposure while eliminating directional risk through delta-neutral construction.
Members onlySpreads, straddles, and combination plays that express a view without unlimited downside.
Members onlyReading price, volume, and open interest as signals of participant behavior — not pattern recognition.
Members onlyThe five-step process for turning a market narrative into a belief bucket and matching it to the right tool family.
Members onlyPosition sizing, volatility-adjusted stops, and building a framework that survives consecutive losing trades.
Members onlyApply every concept from the series to a live market scenario — from reading the setup to sizing and executing the trade.
Every lesson, the full Derivatives Mastery curriculum, and the glossary live inside the community alongside weekly brief discussions, live broadcast events, and recorded podcasts. One place for everything.