intro · Lesson 1
What is Helios
Institutional intelligence, retail price. · 3 min read
Helios is an options market-structure intelligence platform — the kind of dealer-flow visibility prop desks have been paying $60k+/yr for, packaged into a tier-gated retail subscription.
The premise
Most intraday moves in SPX/SPY/QQQ are driven by mechanical hedging, not directional opinion. Market makers — the dealers on the other side of every options trade — have to rebalance their delta as price moves. Their hedging activity makes price stable in some zones and explosive in others.
If you can see where dealers are positioned, you can anticipate where price wants to magnetize, where it gets rejected, and when the volatility regime is about to flip.
What you get
- Live dealer-gamma regime (positive vs negative) per symbol
- Wall, floor, zero-gamma, magnet levels updated each minute
- AI-explained trade tickets with entry/target/stop (Tier 2+)
- Strike-level GEX intelligence (Tier 2+)
- Time-series replay + heatmap (Tier 3)
By the end of this curriculum you'll be able to look at the dashboard and read what dealers are forced to do next.
Got a follow-up?
Ask Helios anything about this lesson — it knows your tier and current dashboard state.