Desk live · US rates & equities
Read the market
Read the market
while it moves.
Think Markets, Think Helious. A live squawk in your ear, yields moving in real time, every release scored on the print, and a running read on what is driving the market. It is what a rates and equities desk watches, on one screen.
Live demo · your AI, reading the Helious desk
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The news feed
Live commentary, filtered and scored.
A headline on its own tells you very little. This feed also gives you the read: who said it, which way it cuts, and if it was a data print, how big the surprise was.
- Tabs cut the feed down to Chatter, Official, Bonds, Equities, Data or ⚡ Market-Moving, and the search box reads the full text of all of it.
- The same story off ten wires posts once.
- Officials from the Fed, the Treasury, the White House, the ECB and the Israeli and Iranian governments get flagged the moment they speak.
- A release lands with the actual against forecast and prior, the surprise in standard deviations, and the bond and equity read, all on one line.
- Auction results carry bid-to-cover, the tail and the full bidder split of indirect, direct and dealer, the second they hit.
Rates, spreads & correlations
See the move before it becomes a story.
A print lands and the move travels: bonds first, then the dollar, then credit, then equities. Most screens pick it up at the equity end. Here you watch the whole chain as it happens.
- The 2s10s, credit and swap spreads move on the screen as they move in the market, so a steepener or a widening shows up while you can still trade it.
- You watch gold against the dollar, stocks against yields, crude against risk. When one of those pairs stops behaving the way it normally does, you see it here before it costs you a trade.
- Every quote carries a live, delayed or stale dot and the exact second it was true. Most screens will not admit when they are behind.
- A watchdog chases every scheduled print until the number exists, so you never open an old release and find a blank where it should be.
- We count every vessel crossing the Strait of Hormuz ourselves and post the number twice a day, at 8:30am and 3:30pm ET, as a free daily dataset. Nobody else prints it. When oil jumps on a tanker headline you already have the count. Why it moves oil, bonds and equities →
The engine
The auction tail, freeThe tail needs the when-issued yield as it stood seconds before the close. That number is in no historical file, so nobody else gives it away. See the auctions →
The curve regime, with its flip timeBull or bear, steepener or flattener, and the minute it changed, instead of "yields rose". See it live →
Ships through the Strait of HormuzWe count vessels off AIS ourselves and publish twice a day. It is a physical oil supply gauge nobody else prints. See the count →
All of it readable by an AIEvery page has a plain-text twin and every number has a tool. Ask your assistant instead of reading a screen. See what agents get →
Every word gets read before it reaches you.
Every headline, print and speech goes through models that work out how big it is, then score it separately for bonds and for stocks.
500k+price reads a day55 instruments, refreshed every 6 seconds
1,000+headlines read and scored a daywires, officials, geopolitics, each posted once
50US economic serieseach with its full history and its own surprise scale
19central banks trackedthe Fed, the ECB and the national banks, BoE, BoJ and more
~300policy speeches read in full a yearplus every set of FOMC minutes, all read for hawk or dove
20+tools your AI can callthe whole desk, over one address
What actually runs
- A hot jobs report is bad for bonds and good for stocks. Every other feed hands you a single sentiment number, which has to be wrong about one of the two. Here every headline carries both scores.
- Keyword scoring calls a missile strike bullish for bonds. It breaks on exactly the headlines you cannot afford to get wrong, so a model re-reads every wire item against the desk's own rules within seconds of it landing.
- FOMC minutes run 9,000 words. Most of the market trades the first paragraph and finds out later what the rest said. Helious reads all of it, for who moved and which way.
- A 0.1 miss is noise on one release and moves the whole curve on another, so every print is sized against its own history and you know which one you are looking at while it is still moving.
- Every night the engine marks its own factors against what the market actually did. The ones that predicted moves get more say and the ones that were noise fade out. Nobody hand-tunes any of it.
- Everyone else hands you five yields and leaves the read to you. This one calls the curve outright, bull or bear, steepener or flattener, with the minute it changed and what it changed from.
- Live audio becomes text, then a scored card, in seconds. What a governor says out loud lands beside what the wires print, so you are never the last to hear it.
Things you can only get here
How it works
From the desk to your screen in seconds.
Sign up
Email, Google or Outlook. No card, and everything is free while we are in beta.
Build your cockpit
Drag, resize and reorder every panel until the screen matches how you actually trade.
Trade the flow
You hear it, you see how it scored, and you act while most of the market is still reading the headline.
Built with the traders using it
A community that decides what we build next.
Most trading communities are a chatroom with a paywall on it. This one builds the product. Post an idea, other members vote it up, and you watch it ship. Some have gone live the same day they were posted.
- Members only, so it stays markets, strategies and terminal talk. No signal sellers and no course pitches.
- Helious Points come from posting, replying, getting upvoted and holding a streak. You climb from Observer to Partner, and your rank sits beside your name every time you post.
- There is a monthly draw for prizes, giveaways and subscription discounts. Every contributor goes in, weighted by the points earned that month, so the more you earn the better your odds.
- The roadmap is public. Suggest a feature, upvote what matters and follow it from scoping to shipped. Nothing gets decided behind a door.
- Every change is posted on the board the day it ships, not buried in a changelog nobody opens.
The free tier
Put the desk in your Discord.
Pick your server, pick a channel and that is it. The bot posts the day ahead each morning, then releases and auctions as they land. No account, nothing to configure.
- The day ahead lands each morning with what prints today, at what time, with forecast and prior, in each member's own timezone. Nobody misses a release over a timezone again.
- Releases come through as actual against forecast and prior, with the surprise measured against that release's own history. A raw beat tells your members nothing.
- Treasury auctions land within seconds, carrying bid to cover, the tail and the bidder split, in the format a desk reads them. Nobody else posts the tail for free.
- Every card is our own data, never republished wire copy, so your channel stays clean and you stay out of trouble.
- Run /helious lane to switch any lane on or off. Only someone with Manage Server can change it.
- Attach your affiliate code and you take 20 percent for life on every member who subscribes. The bot was already free.
Built for AI agents
Give your AI agent a seat at the desk.
Ask your assistant what the market did today and it will answer without having any market data at all. Point Claude, ChatGPT, Cursor or your own code at one address and it reads live yields, scored prints and auction results the way the terminal does, with the history behind each number and the second it was true.
- It takes about two minutes. Paste helious.io/mcp into Claude, ChatGPT or Cursor and the whole desk arrives as 20+ tools it can call: yields and the curve, the calendar, indicator history, auctions, the news feed, Fed speakers, earnings, and one call that answers why the market is moving.
- You do not need an account to try it, and there is no key, no card and no form. Every endpoint answers right now in its real shape with a day of history behind it, and a free account opens seven days and a rate budget of your own.
- REST lives at api.helious.io, with a published spec and a console in the browser for every endpoint. Every tier returns the same shapes, so what you build tonight still runs the day you upgrade.
- Your agent signs itself in with OAuth 2.1 and open registration. There is an agent card listing 19 skills, and requests are signed so we know the bot is yours. Nobody has to paste keys between machines again.
- Add .md to any URL and the page comes back clean. llms.txt and llms-full.txt hand a crawler the glossary, the guides and the help centre in one request, so by the time someone asks an AI about Treasury auctions it has already read us.
- Nobody else has the curve call, the surprise on every print or the auction tail, because they are measured here rather than lifted off a wire. It is why an assistant quoting the market ends up quoting Helious, with a page and a timestamp behind it.
New to this? How to connect your AI to live market data. Also here: MCP server, A2A endpoint, agent card, OpenAPI spec, llms.txt.
Pricing
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Everything is free while we are in beta.
Verify an account today and the whole desk is yours at no cost, squawk included, for as long as the beta runs. These are the prices when it ends.
Free
$0 / forever
See how all of it works.
- Every endpoint and all our AI tools
- News one hour behind, 7 days of history
- ✕ No market prices yet
Starter
$14.99 / month
Your AI reads the news as it happens.
- The hour delay disappears
- Treasury yields and the curve
- 12 months of history
Pro
$39.99 / month
The whole desk, live, plus the screen.
- Every price goes live
- The terminal and the live squawk
- 24 months of history
Ultimate
$99 / month
Helious runs inside your system.
- A licence to redistribute our numbers
- A stream that pushes every print to you
- 10 years of history
Paying for a squawk already? See how Helious compares against Newsquawk, Live Squawk, Financial Juice and Bloomberg.
FAQ
What people ask most.
What is the squawk box?
A live audio channel where the desk calls the market in real time, the way an institutional floor works. It stays silent until someone speaks, streams in under a second, and is open to Pro members.
How real-time is the market data?
Rates, indices, credit, FX and commodities stream from a real-time feed, usually within a few seconds and matched to the professional screens. Every quote carries its own as-of timestamp and a live or delayed marker, so you always know how fresh a number is.
Which markets does it cover?
Built for US rates (Treasury yields, the curve, spreads, futures and auctions) and equities (indices, futures, sectors), with the dollar, gold, commodities, credit and crypto alongside for context.
How is the market signal calculated?
A dual-asset model scores bonds and equities separately. It blends the live news flow, weighted by source and by what is actually being said, with real-time market momentum: index moves, the VIX, credit and the curve. The score reflects both the narrative and the price action.
What are standard-deviation surprises on the calendar?
Every release shows the actual against forecast and prior, then sizes the surprise in standard deviations against its own history, so a beat is measured properly. The bond and equity impact shows the instant the number prints, and a watchdog validates every scheduled release so a print is never silently missed.
How does the news feed stay clean?
It pulls wires, central banks and political coverage, posts each story once, tags who is speaking, and attaches the bond and equity read. Filter by Chatter, Official, Bonds, Equities, Data or ⚡ Market-Moving, or search the whole feed.
Do you cover the Fed and policy in depth?
Yes. The Chair, the Governors and all twelve regional presidents, with full speech transcripts and FOMC minutes read for their hawk or dove lean. The narrative always surfaces the current Fed and White House read and how it is moving the market.
What is the difference between Free and Pro?
Free gives you the full terminal: market data, the curve, the feed, filters, calendar and the signal. Pro adds the live squawk box, real-time release and rapid-move alerts, and the full narrative engine.
Do you have a Discord bot?
Yes, and it is free for any server. The Helious bot posts the day ahead each weekday morning, then economic releases and Treasury auction results, with times shown in each member's own timezone. It carries first-party Helious data only, never republished wire copy. The real-time feed, the live squawk and instant alerts stay on the terminal.
How does Helious decide what a headline means?
Every item gets two scores, one for bonds and one for stocks, because the same news often pushes them opposite ways. A keyword pass scores it the instant it lands, then a language model re-reads it against the desk's own written rules a few seconds later and corrects the score if the keywords got it wrong. Economic releases skip the word models entirely and are sized in standard deviations against that indicator's own history. Long documents like FOMC minutes, around 9,000 words, are read whole for their hawk or dove lean rather than skimmed for a phrase.
How much data does Helious take in?
About 500,000 price reads a day across 55 instruments refreshed every 6 seconds, more than a thousand headlines read and scored on a normal weekday, 50 US economic series each with its full history, 19 central banks tracked, and roughly 300 policy speeches read in full a year alongside every set of FOMC minutes.
Do the scores improve over time?
Yes. Every night the engine fits each factor's recent scores against what the market actually did on those days, then adjusts how much say that factor gets. A factor that has been predicting moves is weighted up; one that has been noise fades toward a floor. The weights are bounded, so no single factor can run away with the score.
Can I connect Helious to ChatGPT or Claude?
Yes. Helious runs an MCP server at helious.io/mcp. Add that one address to Claude, ChatGPT, Cursor or any MCP client and the desk arrives as 20+ tools: live Treasury yields and the curve, the economic calendar, indicator history with standard-deviation surprises, Treasury auction results, the news feed, Fed speakers, earnings, and a single call that answers why the market is moving. There is a two-minute setup guide for the common assistants at helious.io/ai.
Do I need an API key to use the Helious API?
Not to start. A keyless caller gets every endpoint in its real response shape with one day of history and news on a one hour delay, which is enough to wire an integration end to end before an account exists. A free account key opens seven days of history and your own rate budget. Live market prices are the paid part. Every tier sees the same endpoints and the same response shapes, so nothing breaks when you upgrade.
What makes Helious readable by AI crawlers and agents?
Every page has a Markdown twin: add .md to any URL, or ask for it with an Accept: text/markdown header. llms.txt and llms-full.txt hand a crawler the glossary, the guides and the help centre in one request. On top of that there is a published OpenAPI spec, an A2A agent card listing 19 skills, OAuth 2.1 with dynamic client registration so an agent can enrol itself, and signed HTTP messages for bot identity.
Who is it built for?
Active traders and desks who need to react fast, especially anyone trading bonds, rates or equities. Built by traders with more than ten years in the markets, for traders.
Trade with the desk.
The squawk, the signal and the narrative, all live. It is what an institutional floor hears, on your screen, and it is free for as long as the beta runs.