Robert Bresnahan, President & Director of Grains & Oilseeds

Bob Bresnahan founded Trilateral, Inc. in 1986.  He is now widely recognized for his market analysis acumen and recommendations—combining technical and fundamental analysis.

Bob spent the first 11 years of his career in the trading pits of the Chicago Board of Trade, the Minneapolis Grain Exchange, the New York Commodity Exchange, the New York Mercantile Exchange, and the New York Futures Exchange to diversify his trading opportunities and skills. He left the trading pits in 1986 to focus on building Trilateral’s services in managing purchasing and risk management transactions—including supplier negotiations, pricing, hedging, and administrative management—for companies whose operating margins are highly sensitive to commodity, ingredient and energy input costs.

Bob refers to himself as “purely a technical trader.” And while his technical analysis expertise is an indisputable competitive advantage, Bob is also an ardent fundamental analyst; particularly in the context of monitoring the dynamics of how the market is “determining value.”

A primary benefit of Bob’s approach is it allows buyers and traders to make pricing and purchasing decision with a confident level of probability of what the market is going to do as opposed to reacting to what the market has done.

Bob is a regular contributor to the Milling & Baking Market Fax along with being the sole market contributor for the American Baking Association (ABA) in Washington D.C. Bob is also sought out on a regular basis by the American Soybean Association, the U.S. Wheat Council, and U.S. Coarse Grains Council to conduct foreign purchasing seminars for their customers. Bob is also a frequent participant for the many risk management training programs conducted by the Chicago Board of Trade Division of the CME Group.