Private markets · Since 1998
The edge lives
in the execution.
Rockford & Ellington is a private markets partnership that trades foreign exchange, indices and commodities with institutional discipline, on behalf of clients who measure performance in basis points, not slogans.
Client assets under administration
Founded in the City of London
Institutional & private clients
Markets accessed across five continents
The discipline
A philosophy you can hold us to.
We do not sell certainty. We sell process. Three commitments have governed every mandate since Edward Rockford and Charles Ellington opened the partnership doors in 1998.
Read the firm's storyExecution before forecasting
Returns are won on the fill, not the prediction. Our desk is engineered to capture price, not opinions.
One book, many venues
Liquidity is fragmented across exchanges and dark pools. We route across all of them as a single surface.
Survive the worst case
Every position is sized against its own tail. Capital preservation is the precondition for compounding.
The platform
An arbitrage engine, pointed at the gaps.
Our execution system continuously prices the same instrument across every venue we touch and acts the instant a dislocation opens wider than the cost to close it. Clients see the result as cleaner fills and tighter effective spreads, with nothing to configure.
- Cross-venue routing. Eleven liquidity sources, priced as one continuous book.
- Practice capital. A full paper-trading environment with live prices and zero risk.
- Transparent costs. Every basis point of spread and financing, itemised before you commit.
Account tiers
Four tiers. One standard.
Your deposit becomes your trading capital in full — no subscription fees, no platform fees. What scales is capacity and how closely the desk works around you.
Silver
Learn the desk. Trade the core markets with a safety net under you.
- Forex majors, gold & the FTSE 100
- Up to 15 open positions
- Standard execution routing
- Practice account with live prices
- Educational library & weekly market brief
- Advisor check-in · once a month
Gold
Run a proper book. Every market opens, and the tools start working for you.
- All 37 markets across four asset classes
- Up to 40 open positions
- 10 automated price alerts
- Cross-venue price comparison view
- Priority execution queue
- Advisor review call · every week
Platinum
The firm's systematic toolkit — algorithms, automation and insured capital.
- Systematic strategy suite (desk algorithms)
- Up to 300 open positions
- 25 triggers + custom automations
- Backtesting engine & data export
- Trading capital insured
- Direct line to your advisor · twice a week
Elite
A private mandate. The desk builds and runs a strategy around you alone.
- Bespoke monthly strategy, written by the desk
- Unlimited positions & automations
- Multi-currency settlement (GBP · EUR · USD · CHF)
- Full arbitrage data feed
- Insured capital + white-glove onboarding
- Elite desk · daily, out-of-hours access
Markets
Four asset classes, one mandate.
Forex
- EUR/USD+0.21%
- GBP/USD-0.08%
- USD/JPY+0.34%
Indices
- FTSE 100+0.46%
- S&P 500+0.29%
- DAX 40-0.12%
Commodities
- XAU/USD+0.62%
- BRENT-0.39%
- XAG/USD+0.44%
Treasuries
- UST 10Y-1.6bp
- GILT 10Y+0.9bp
Insights
What the desk is reading.
We never promised clients we could predict the market. We promised that when the market moved, we would already be in the right place, for the right reasons, at the right size.
The Rockford & Ellington Foundation · Since 2006
We give 1% of our revenue, every year, to the education and health of children worldwide.
$24.6M committed since 2006, reaching 180,000+ children across 14 countries.
Open an account, or practise first with live prices.
Accounts are reviewed by a named advisor within one business day. No obligation, and the practice environment is always free.