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Great experience with Instant Funding propfirm today. I follow the rules got paid on time. Instant funding has the best funding models in the industry with low prices.

I am extremely disappointed with my experience.
I successfully passed the evaluation process, received a funded account, and generated approximately $2,638 in profit. After submitting my payout request, my account was flagged for "One-Sided Betting" and my payout was ultimately rejected.
What concerns me most is the inconsistency in the explanations I received throughout the review process. Over time, different reasons were referenced, including One-Sided Betting, Excessive Risk, Coordinated Trading, Multi-Account Cluster Behaviour, and later trade activity that occurred after my payout request had already been submitted.
I repeatedly requested a clear chronological explanation of the exact rule violation, when it was identified, and how the final decision was reached. While support did respond and provided detailed explanations, the reasoning evolved multiple times during the discussion, which left me with more questions than answers.
I invested significant time and effort into passing evaluations and building the funded account. Having a payout of approximately $2,638 rejected after reaching the funded stage was extremely frustrating and damaging to my trust in the process.
I encourage prospective traders to thoroughly read and understand every risk rule, especially those related to one-sided exposure, account clusters, and risk management, before committing significant time or capital.
This review reflects my personal experience and the outcome of my case.

I am writing this review based on my direct experience with Account 3062239. After successfully generating a clean net profit of $10,128.30 on a 200K account, Instant Funding (Acello Ltd) retroactively closed my account and confiscated my funds. This case exposes a predatory operational model built on backend manipulation:
​Mathematical Refutation of the 10-Minute Clause:
The firm claimed a risk breach by arbitrarily pooling separate positions. However, independent server logs show my initial positions closed at 13:41, and the next position was not opened until 13:53. This is an elapsed duration of 11 minutes and 13 seconds. I strictly adhered to the written rules on their platform, and their manual chaining of these trades post-facto is a clear distortion of contract terms.
​The 2-Week Structural Trap (Delayed Enforcement):
The most damning evidence of bad faith is the massive delay in their risk enforcement. The firm issued the breach notice and terminated my account on May 28th, based on trades that were executed and closed on May 13th! A legitimate risk management system triggers breaches instantly to protect capital. Allowing a trader to continue trading for 14 days, build up over $10k in profit, and only "hunt" for a breach the moment a payout is requested proves that the breach was artificially manufactured as a pretext to deny the payout.
​The Danger of White Label Server Manipulation:
This firm operates on a cTrader White Label server architecture. Because they own the administrative rights to the backend dashboard, they have the technical capability to retroactively modify timestamp metrics and manually manipulate how data is grouped after the trading has occurred. Retail traders need to understand that on these un-cleared, white-label servers, the firm acts as both the player and the referee, altering interpretations to reverse-engineer breaches when a trader becomes highly profitable.
​This entity holds no financial conduct license in the UK or UAE. This matter is officially escalated to the UK Financial Conduct Authority (FCA Case Ref: 212323833) and banking authorities for a full Chargeback.
​UPDATED RESPONSE TO THE FIRM:
​Thank you for publicly acknowledging my exact technical metrics. Your admission that "comprehensive reviews are often triggered by payout requests" is a formal confession of predatory enforcement.
​Waiting 14 days while I took market risk, generated $10,128.30 in net profit, and only "auditing" the account retroactively to construct a breach when I asked for my money is a textbook unfair commercial practice. Real-time automated risk management systems protect capital instantly; delayed manual filtering protects only your profit margins.
​My independent cTrader logs remain unassailable: 11 minutes and 13 seconds elapsed between those trades. Full compliance.
​This public admission has been added to FCA Case Ref: 212323833 and forwarded to my banking institution's chargeback division. I do not require an internal "senior audit" to tell me what the server timestamps already prove. Process the full registration fee refund immediately, or face full regulatory adjudication.

I am extremely disappointed with my experience with Instant Funding and am sharing this review in the hope of receiving a fair resolution.
I purchased a 50K Challenge account (Account 8101360) and successfully completed the evaluation. My account status was marked as “Passed”, I received a congratulatory email confirming that I had passed the challenge, and I was subsequently issued a funded account (Account 8102231).
I also received instructions to complete my KYC verification and sign the required agreements before activating the funded account. At that stage, I had not placed a single trade on the funded account.
The following day, I received an email stating that a review of my Challenge account (8101360) had identified a Max Lot rule violation. Shortly afterward, my funded account (8102231) was cancelled as a result of that review.
My concern is not only the alleged violation itself, but the process followed by the company.
If my evaluation contained a rule violation significant enough to invalidate my result, why was my account marked as Passed? Why was I received a congratulatory email confirming that I had successfully completed the challenge? And why was a funded account issued to me in the first place?
Based on my understanding of the published rules for my account type, the maximum allowed exposure on XAUUSD was 1.5 lots. My trades were generally executed between 0.5 and 1 lot, and I will be attaching screenshots of both my trading history and the published rules for reference.
The company also stated that profits from the allegedly violating trades would be deducted. However, the final outcome was far more severe. Instead of simply removing the disputed profits, I was reset all the way back to Phase 1, effectively losing all of my evaluation progress.
After cancelling my funded account, the company issued me a new account (8102360), but under significantly stricter conditions, including a maximum risk limit of 1% per trade idea and mandatory Stop Loss requirements.
These conditions are completely different from the account specifications I originally purchased. One of the main reasons I selected this specific account type was because its trading conditions matched my trading style and risk management approach. Had I wanted to trade under these more restrictive conditions, I would have chosen a different product from the beginning.
I believe it is unfair to approve a trader, mark the challenge as Passed, issue a funded account, and then reverse the entire decision afterward based on a review that should have been completed before the passing result was officially confirmed.
I have screenshots of:
* The passing confirmation email
* The congratulatory email
* The funded account issuance email
* The account cancellation email
* The challenge reset email
* The new account issuance email
* My MT5 account history
* The published lot size rules
At this point, I am requesting a fair and prompt resolution:
Restore my funded account (8102231) under the original conditions that were in place when I successfully passed the evaluation,
I hope this matter can be resolved professionally, fairly, and without further delays.

Absolutely disappointing support and service. On account 8093936 i mistakenly placed SL over the 1% limit by 1.75$, closed the trade well below that limit and the trade never even went close to the 1%, yet my payout got rejected and human errors arent taken into consideration. I saw someone else have same problem by placing SL over the limit but the trade never hitting that point and yet got payout rejected but after talking with support they got their payout. For me my account that had hard worked payout got rejected and account disabled which is very disappointing over such small human error.