Helium MCP Server

Real-time news with bias scoring, live market data, and AI-powered options pricing — all accessible through the Model Context Protocol.

Overview

Helium MCP gives your AI assistant access to:

• 3.2M+ news articles from 5,000+ sources, each scored across 15+ bias dimensions
• Balanced news synthesis — left, right, and center perspectives aggregated into one coherent story
• Live market data — price, IV rank, AI-generated bull/bear cases, and price forecasts
• AI options pricing — proprietary ML models for fair-value estimates and probability ITM
• Meme search — semantic search across viral memes with OCR text and captions

50 free queries included. No sign-up required.

Quick Start

Cursor

Add to your Cursor MCP settings:

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "helium": {
      "url": "https://heliumtrades.com/mcp"
    }
  }
}

Claude Desktop

Add to ~/Library/Application Support/Claude/claude_desktop_config.json:

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "helium": {
      "type": "streamable-http",
      "url": "https://heliumtrades.com/mcp"
    }
  }
}

Any MCP Client

Connect to the streamable HTTP endpoint:

https://heliumtrades.com/mcp

Tools

search_news

Full-text search across 3.2M+ articles from 5,000+ sources. Filter by source, category, date, and minimum shares. Returns bias scores, AI summaries, and context.

Parameters:

Parameter	Type	Required	Default	Description
query	string	Yes	—	Search keywords
limit	integer	No	20	Max results (1–100)
source	string	No	—	Filter by source name (e.g. "CNN", "Reuters")
category	string	No	—	One of: trending, tech, markets, politics, business, science, memes
days_back	integer	No	720	Only include articles from the last N days
min_shares	integer	No	-1	Minimum total social shares
sort	string	No	"rank"	One of: rank (relevance), date (newest), shares (most shared)

search_balanced_news

AI-synthesized articles that aggregate multiple sources into balanced coverage. Each story includes a summary, takeaway, evidence breakdown, potential outcomes, and relevant tickers.

Parameters:

Parameter	Type	Required	Default	Description
query	string	Yes	—	Search keywords
limit	integer	No	10	Max results (1–50)
category	string	No	—	One of: tech, politics, markets, business, science
days_back	integer	No	0	Only include stories from the last N days (0 = no filter)

get_source_bias

Deep bias analysis for any news outlet: political lean, emotional tone, prescriptiveness, signature phrases, similar sources, and historical trends.

Parameters:

Parameter	Type	Required	Default	Description
source	string	Yes	—	Source name (e.g. "Fox News") or domain (e.g. "foxnews.com")
recent_articles	integer	No	10	Number of recent articles to include (1–50)

get_bias_from_url

Analyze any article URL for per-dimension bias scores: political lean, emotionality, manipulation level, factfulness, and more.

Parameters:

Parameter	Type	Required	Default	Description
url	string	Yes	—	Full article URL

get_ticker

Comprehensive data for any stock, ETF, or crypto: live price, AI-generated bull/bear cases, price forecast, IV rank, volatility surface, and top-ranked options strategies.

Parameters:

| Parameter | Type | Required | Default | Descriptio

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