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How Helios grades itself

2026-10-27 · protocol

Every read is stamped when it is made, graded forward on our own price tape, and held to a two-half test before and after it reaches members. The protocol, written down.

The rules

• Stamped first. A read is written to the record the moment it is made, with its time, symbol, side and the price it was read at. Nothing is reconstructed later.
• Graded on our own tape. Outcomes come from the SIP minute bars this site records every minute of the session, never from the engine that produced the read. The grader is a separate program that cannot see why a read was made.
• Two halves. A read is published only when it clears 60% in both halves of its window with at least 25 calls per half where the sample allows. A read that clears one half and not the other is a season, not a rule.
• Push band. Moves within 5 basis points of the reference grade as a push and count for neither side. A read cannot be right by rounding.
• Nightly rebuild. The record file is rebuilt every trading day at 16:30 ET from the whole window. The landing page, the member banner and this research page read the same file, so there is one number, not several.
• Decay is a result. A read that falls below the bar in a forward window is retired and written up. The retired-reads note on this page is part of the record, not a footnote.
• Pre-registration. Hypotheses are written down before the window opens, with their horizon and the bar they must clear. The open list is published here; the definitions are not.

What is deliberately not done

• No re-tuning after seeing the forward window. The day call's rule was set once.
• No cherry-picked windows. The window is the whole period for which the tape exists.
• No mixing of simulated and real results. The paper executor on the track-record page is simulated and labelled so wherever it appears.
• No publication of the method. What is published is the claim, the sample, the window and the score.

The weekly witness note

Every Friday after the close the witness writes a note listing each session's call and outcome for the week, the season record and the hour-read record. It is generated by the grader from the record file; nobody edits it.

Educational only — not financial advice. Options trading involves substantial risk.