If you already have a format that works, run it. The five shapes below are a starting point for anyone who wants one, not a template you are locked into. Whatever you post, Section 02 applies and Agent Arcade has to land in it. Anything set in monospace has to be typed exactly as written. Terms, rules and material are all on this page — you don't need another document.
01Terms
Pool$4,000
Rate$2 per 1,000 views
Minimum per post1,000 views
Cap per creator$250 — 125,000 views
Payout basisFirst come, first serve until the pool runs out
DurationNo fixed end date
PlatformTikTok photo mode
EligibilityNo follower minimum, no account age. New accounts qualify.
Bio linkagentarcade.io — required in your bio; TikTok unlocks links at 1,000 followers
Posts have to stay live 30 days. Delete one early and that post pays nothing, however many views it got.
At least 40% of a post's views must come from tier-one countries as Content Rewards defines them. A post that goes viral in the wrong geography doesn't count.
02The rules
Break one of these and the post doesn't get paid.
No number you can't screenshot. Any figure on a slide needs a live screenshot in the same post.
No results you didn't have. Don't say you made money if you didn't. Don't say you use Agent Arcade if you don't. Everything here is written so you never have to claim either.
Banned words.passive incomeset and forgetguaranteedrisk-freebeats the marketfinancial freedomget richlife-changing money — or any specific return promise. Banned as a hashtag: #profitable.
No profit screenshots. No PnL.
Never call it financial advice, and never tell anyone what to buy. No tickers as picks, no "best pairs", no naming other brokers, prop firms or apps.
Agent Arcade has to land in the post. A real moment that follows from what you just said, not a logo bolted on the end. This holds whichever format you run.
The logo goes on the plug slide — and nowhere else. A logo on any other slide is a rejection. You don't need agentarcade.io on any slide.
agentarcade.io goes in your bio. TikTok only allows a bio link once you have 1,000 followers. Under that, skip it — it isn't held against you.
03Making the slides
Running your own format? This section describes the look of the five shapes — the board, the text style, the placement. Keep your own look instead; it is what people follow you for. The one thing that still applies to every post: text that stays readable over the photo.
If you are building one of the five shapes, every background comes from there — those posts end up looking like one series.
Keep one post's photos consistent — all night, or all cool. Don't mix a sunlit shot with a 2am shot in the same slideshow. The image doesn't need to illustrate the words; it just needs to feel like the same series.
Text
Plain white, centred, upper-middle third. TikTok's default text style with a soft shadow — not a heavy black outline. Outline reads as made-in-an-app. These should look like someone typed on their own photo.
Stay out of the bottom third where the caption and buttons sit, and off the right rail.
Darken behind your text. A real photo has bright spots — a streetlight, a lit window, a headlight — and white text sitting on one of them disappears. Either drop the photo's brightness where the text goes, or pick a frame with a dark band across the middle third. Every example below does this.
The gap matters. Where a slide has two lines, leave a real blank line between them. That pause is what makes people read the second one.
Same size, same weight for both lines. You don't need bold — the gap does the work, and mixing weights inside TikTok's editor is fiddly enough that people give up and make the slide worse.
04The five posts
Each example below shows a finished version — where the text sits, how long each slide runs, where the plug goes.
Don't retype the example. It's there to show you the shape. Build your own version from Section 05 — if three creators post the same seven points in the same order, we've wasted the roster.
Already have a format that works? Use it. These five are here so nobody starts from a blank screen — they're a floor, not a ceiling. If your account is built on a shape of your own, keep making what people follow you for. Nothing else changes: every rule in Section 02 still applies, and the one that matters most here is that Agent Arcade has to land in the post as a real moment — not a logo bolted on the end.
Post 1 — the numbered list
9 slides
7 sentences I wish I heard before trading
1. Most missed moves are schedule problems
You were at work, asleep, or driving. No amount of study fixes that.
2. The trade right after a loss is your worst
Removing yourself from that one moment beats any indicator you could add.
3. Never scale up after a good week
The most reliable way to turn a good month into a bad one.
4. Decide your exit while you're calm
You won't think clearly once you're inside the position.
5. Memory rewrites itself in your favour
You remember the calls you got right. Your log doesn't.
6. Being right was never the bottleneck
Most people call the move correctly and still lose on sizing or timing.
7. Hours watching charts are hours
Automation isn't only about performance. It's about what you get back.
Most of those are availability problems, not skill problems. Agent Arcade runs AI agents that don't have them.
post 1 — nine slides · scroll sideways · example only
01The hook, two lines at most.
02–08One point each, numbered. First line, blank gap, second line. Nothing else on the slide.
09The plug.
Order matters more than which points you pick. Open with the one nobody argues with, save the one that turns inward for late, and land on a point the plug can follow without a jump. The example ends on time spent at the screen, which is why its plug reads as the next sentence rather than an ad.
Post 2 — the turn
3 slides
Everyone tells you trading gives you FREEDOM that most people never touch.
They're not lying. They're just not finished.
The freedom is real. So is the part nobody puts next to it.
You'll be at work when it moves. Asleep when it moves. In the car when it moves.
You'll make your worst decision thirty seconds after your worst loss, every time, and knowing that in advance doesn't stop it.
The people who get the freedom are the ones who stopped relying on themselves to be awake and calm at the same time.
agent arcade — AI agents that trade for you
post 2 — three slides · scroll sideways · example only
01A setup. Something true and slightly flattering about trading.
02One line, and nothing else on the slide. Empty is the mechanic: there's nothing to read, so the only thing to do is swipe. The urge to make this slide useful is what kills the format.
03The payoff. Three or four short paragraphs with a blank line between each, then a small lowercase plug.
The payoff never lands on money. No daily figure, no monthly figure, no "you can make". It lands on time, on discipline, or on what the work actually costs you.
If your setup makes a claim about what trading gives you, put everyone tells you on the front of it. That's the difference between reporting the claim and making it, and making it breaks Rule 3.
Post 3 — the list stack
5 slides
Traders don't sleep on this
Costs that never show up as a fee:
The spread
Slippage
Overnight charges
Frequency
Your time
What software doesn't do:
Revenge trade
Get bored
Sleep
Argue with itself
Move its own stop
Where you can run one:
Agent Arcade
Set these before you fund anything:
Your cap
Your size
Your off switch
Your window
Your notifications
post 3 — five slides · scroll sideways · example only
01The hook. Bare and curious; this is the one post where you don't have to name the subject, because slides 2 onward are concrete enough to pay it off.
02·03·05A category header, then five bare items underneath. One to four words each. If an item needs a sentence it belongs in Post 1.
04The plug, formatted exactly like a category. Header, Agent Arcade.
The plug goes on slide 4, never slide 5. A normal slide has to follow it. That's the whole trick — an ad that isn't in the ad position doesn't get read as one.
No superlatives in the plug header. "Where you can run one" is true; "best app" is a claim we can't make.
Post 4 — cortisol
2 slides
revenge trading
overtrading
random entries
checking at 3am
moving your stop
adding to a loser
rules written down
one setup
size decided in advance
the stop sits in the software
not checking at 3am
doing the same thing every time
Agent Arcade runs AI agents inside the limits you set.
post 4 — two slides · scroll sideways · example only
01cortisol-HIGH.png over a dark photo, upper third. Five or six lines underneath.
02The same photo, cortisol-LOW.png, and the inverse list. Then the plug.
Same photo on both slides is what makes the gauge look like it moved. Different photos and the effect is gone.
Both lists are behaviours — things a person does or doesn't do. Nothing about payouts, profits, wins, funded accounts or passing anything. And Agent Arcade never goes inside the list; it goes in the footer. Putting the product name in a list next to good outcomes is a return claim, and it's the single fastest way to fail this campaign.
Gauge files come with the campaign. Drop them straight on — don't recolour, relabel or rebuild them.
Post 5 — the turn, second subject
3 slides
This is why trading is different…
Every other skill you've ever learned rewarded effort.
Study more, work more, practise more — everything else gives it back.
Trading doesn't. More screen time makes you trade more, and trading more is how most people lose.
The skill curve has to go up while the effort curve comes down, at the same time, and almost nobody can do both.
That's the part that breaks people. Not the losses. The fact that trying harder is the wrong move.
the version of this that runs without you — Agent Arcade
post 5 — three slides · scroll sideways · example only
Same three-slide shape as Post 2, different territory. Slide 2 stays near-empty, the payoff runs long, the plug is a small lowercase footer. Run this one and Post 2 from different angles so they don't read as the same post twice.
05Making more of them
The five above are one version each. To make the next one, keep the shape and change the material.
Running your own format? The next few rules are about getting more posts out of the five shapes, so they won't all apply to you. Things to talk about further down is material rather than format — take any of it into whatever shape you post.
What has to change between two posts of the same shape
At least half the talking points, and a different order
All the backgrounds
The caption line
What can stay: the hook. Reusing a hook with new material underneath is normal, and it's how these accounts build a series people recognise. What you can't do is post the same combination twice.
Two creators shouldn't run the same hook in the same week. Check what else is going out before you post.
Don't run the same shape three times in a row. Alternate — a numbered list, then a Cortisol, then a Turn. The account should look like a person, not a feed of templates.
You'll run out of hooks long before you run out of material. When one starts feeling stale, say so and it gets replaced.
Things to talk about
Each one is a slide: the line first, a gap, then the line under it. Use whichever fit your hook — you don't have to stay inside a group.
What a trade actually costs you
Somebody has to take the other side
If nobody wants what you're holding, the price on your screen isn't the price you get.
The price you click isn't the price you get
Between the click and the fill, the market moves. That gap is never labelled a fee.
A stop is an instruction, not a promise
On a sharp move it fills well past where you set it.
Buying is easy. Selling is the hard part.
Getting out at a fair price needs someone on the other side, and there are fewer at 4am.
You are the slowest thing in the room
Most trading is software against software. You're tapping a screen.
The spread is a fee with a different name
You pay it instantly on every trade, whether or not anything says fee.
Some positions charge you just to stay open
Not once. At intervals, for as long as you hold it.
Some markets never close now
Gold, oil, indices and crypto all trade at 3am on a Sunday.
Borrowing multiplies the loss identically
Same multiplier downward. That's why accounts hit zero instead of just going down.
There's a price where your position ends without you
On borrowed money it closes automatically. Knowing that number is most of the game.
A strategy that worked can simply stop working
Conditions change and the edge goes with them. That's the normal case.
Volatility isn't risk. It's just what you feel.
Risk is not getting your money back. People confuse the two and sell at the worst moment.
Why people lose, that has nothing to do with picks
Most missed moves are schedule problems
You were at work, asleep, or driving. No amount of study fixes that.
The trade right after a loss is your worst
Removing yourself from that one moment beats any indicator you could add.
You can only hold one opinion at a time
So you defend it instead of testing it.
Your journal would embarrass you
Trade count, average hold time, biggest single loss. Most people have never looked.
Frequency multiplies every cost you have
Cutting your trade count usually beats improving your entries.
Memory rewrites itself in your favour
You remember the calls you got right. Your log doesn't.
Decide your exit while you're calm
You won't think clearly once you're inside the position.
Never scale up after a good week
The most reliable way to turn a good month into a bad one.
Being right was never the bottleneck
Most people call the move correctly and still lose on sizing or timing.
Hours watching charts are hours
Automation isn't only about performance. It's about what you get back.
A mediocre process every time beats a great one sometimes
The boring answer is also the correct one.
Nothing is proven in three days
Pick your window in advance and don't move it because you dislike what you see.
How AI agents actually behave
Same instructions, four different bots
The gap between models is wider than the gap between strategies.
It has no ego to defend
It runs the next decision exactly like it ran the last one.
Check the trade count first
Frequency tells you more about real cost than any single result.
It works while you're asleep
The advantage is availability, not intelligence.
Open the log
Newer agents write down why they entered. Almost nobody reads them.
Consistency cuts both ways
It applies the same logic every time, including when the logic is wrong.
It won't get bored in month three
Most strategies fail because the person stops.
It does what you said, not what you meant
Most bad outcomes trace back to the instructions, not the model.
It will run a bad strategy perfectly
Automation removes execution mistakes, not strategy mistakes.
It isn't out-thinking anyone
It's acting in milliseconds while you're still unlocking your phone.
Before you put money anywhere
Pick a number you could watch go to zero
If losing it would change your week, it's too big.
Size decides the outcome more than the entry does
Same trade, two people. One is fine and one is wiped out.
Leverage changes what "small" means
What you deposited is not the size of your position.
A number in your head is a suggestion
Put the limit in the software, where you can't move it at 2am.
Never add money to recover a loss
The most reliable route from a bad week to a bad year.
Who physically holds your money?
Not who runs the app. That's a different question and a more important one.
Read the risk page
Lawyers wrote it, so it's the most honest page on any site.
Check whether you can leave
Withdrawal limits and lock-ups are what people discover last and should check first.
Use the free version first
Two weeks on fake money tells you more than any review.
Explain it in one sentence
If you can't say how it makes money, you're guessing with extra steps.
Watch it trade before you fund it
A week of watching beats any description.
Find the fee page before anything else
It's usually one page and almost nobody reads it.
Find the off switch and use it once
On purpose, before you need it in a hurry.
Test on a calm day and a violent one
Quiet markets say nothing about loud ones.
Spotting something dodgy
The word "guaranteed"
No legitimate financial product guarantees a return. That one word is the whole answer.
Urgency is the product
Real financial products aren't scarce. Pressure exists to stop you thinking.
Screenshots prove nothing
Anyone can show you a winning trade. Nobody posts the other eleven.
Backtests are not results
A strategy tested on past data was built against it. Live is a different number.
Read for what isn't mentioned
The omissions — cost, failure rate, worst case — are the actual information.
There's no downside anywhere in the pitch
Everything real has a failure mode and says so.
AI and work
It happened slowly
Trading floors thinned over a decade while everyone said it wouldn't happen.
The first jobs to go weren't the easy ones
They were the ones with clear inputs and measurable outputs.
Nobody announces it
You notice in job postings, years late.
Software doesn't take lunch
The advantage was never quality. It's decisions per hour, indefinitely.
Speed beat skill
The faster mediocre system beat the slower excellent one. Every time.
The job became supervision
The work shifted to watching the thing that decides. Almost nobody teaches it.
It never announced itself as AI
Most of what replaced people was called software, or a process improvement.
06Plugs
The slide that names Agent Arcade. Pick one that follows from what you just said — a plug that doesn't connect reads as an ad bolted on.
The groupings below are by shape, because that is where the plug sits in each of the five. Running your own format? Take whichever line fits and put it where the plug belongs in your post.
Post 1 — last slide, full size
Most of those are availability problems, not skill problems. Agent Arcade runs AI agents that don't have them.
Software doesn't revenge trade or miss the move at 3am. Agent Arcade runs AI agents that trade for you.
Knowing all this is one thing. Acting on it at 4am is another. Agent Arcade runs AI agents that do.
Agent Arcade runs AI agents inside the limits you set.
Agent Arcade is where you can run one. Pick a model, set the size, it trades.
Run that whole list on Agent Arcade before you fund it. AI agents that trade for you.
Posts 2 and 5 — small lowercase footer under the payoff
agent arcade — AI agents that trade for you
agent arcade runs AI agents that trade while you're asleep
the version of this that runs without you — Agent Arcade
none of that needs you awake. Agent Arcade, AI agents that trade for you
Post 3 — a category header on slide 4
Where you can run one: Agent Arcade
What actually does this: Agent Arcade
Built for exactly this: Agent Arcade
Post 4 — footer under the LOW list
Agent Arcade runs AI agents inside the limits you set.
Most of that list is a setting. Agent Arcade runs AI agents that trade for you.
Agent Arcade puts the rules in software instead of your head.
Only if it's actually true
These say you personally use it. If you haven't run an agent on Agent Arcade, use one above instead. Nobody will check, but a made-up personal claim is what turns a clean campaign into a problem.
I run mine on Agent Arcade — AI agents that trade for you.
Agent Arcade is where I test these. AI agents trading across markets.
The link lives in your bio, not on the slides. Same destination every time.
07Captions
Short. One line, then three or four tags. That's it.
Five of the six top-performing posts we studied ran tags and nothing else. Long captions compete with the slide text and lose.
The line should ask something, so people reply — comments are the cheapest distribution there is. Don't restate what's on the slides.
which one did you learn the expensive way
which side were you on this week
save this one
nobody warns you about the second one
add yours
took me way too long to understand this
tell me it's not just me
Tags
Throw three or four relevant ones on and move on — they aren't what decides whether a post travels.
Never use #profitable. In an ad for a leveraged product it's a return claim sitting in a hashtag.
08What gets a post rejected
A figure with no screenshot behind it
A result you didn't have, or saying you use the platform when you don't
Any banned word from Section 02, including #profitable
A profit or PnL screenshot
Anything that reads as financial advice — tickers as picks, "best pairs", naming other brokers or apps
The logo on any slide other than the plug slide, or missing from the plug slide
Your own format with no real Agent Arcade moment in it — a logo on the end doesn't count
No agentarcade.io link in your bio once you are past 1,000 followers
Deleting the post inside 30 days
Fewer than 40% of views from tier-one countries
Retyping an example image instead of building your own version
Post 3 — the plug on the last slide instead of slide 4, a superlative in the plug header, or items longer than four words
Posts 2 and 5 — content added to slide 2 instead of leaving it near-empty, or a payoff that lands on an earnings figure
Post 4 — Agent Arcade inside the list instead of the footer, outcome words in either list, a different photo on the two slides, or a recoloured gauge