R.J. O’Brien & Associates, a privately-owned Futures Commission Merchant (FCM), was founded in 1914 making it one of the most established and recognized brokerage companies in the industry.

R.J. O’Brien and Associates is a founding member of the Chicago Mercantile Exchange, a full clearing member of the CME Group that includes the CME, Chicago Board of Trade, NYMEX, and COMEX, a clearing member of the ICE Futures US, and a member of the Euronext Liffe, and Eurex AG exchanges.

RJO Market Research and Trading

RJO Market Research and Trading combines technical and fundamental research to help our clients gain an increased perspective of market activity. RJO MRT advises shorter-term traders and longer-term hedgers of agricultural, energy, financial, metal, and soft commodity markets.

Through email and RSS alerts, RJO MRT quickly and conveniently informs clients of technical, fundamental, and trade strategy news as it develops, rather than in routine day-end summaries. This real-time research is available in our blogs, in-depth reports, and webcasts.

Biographies

Randall Mittelstaedt
Randy has been involved in fundamental analysis of commodity markets for 17 years, specializing in grains and oilseeds. He joined R.J. O’Brien in February 2000 and is responsible for fundamental analysis of the grains and oilseeds markets for the Commercial Agri-Business Group. As the Director of Research, he is regularly relied upon to aid in risk management and hedging decisions for commercial clients based on his analysis of the macro factors impacting the grain markets. Randy has given numerous presentations to industry groups and agri-business clients relative to his analysis and outlook of the futures markets and is regularly relied upon by national media as an expert in grain futures markets. Prior to R.J. O’Brien, Randy was Senior Grains Analyst for Merrill Lynch for over seven years, providing all fundamental research in coarse grains and wheat. He started his career as an analyst with Shearson Lehman Brothers in Chicago. Randy received a degree in Finance from Illinois State University.

David Toth
Dave joined R.J. O’Brien as the Director of Technical Research in April 2007 following a career that began in 1981 at Geldermann, Inc. where he provided technical research and sales services to institutional users of financial futures and options until 1995. After stints at Optima Research, Harris Futures, and TJM Institutional Services, Dave served as Director of Technical Research, Foreign Exchange & Metals at UBS Investment Bank from 1998 to 2005 before leaving for an emerging CTA. Dave has counseled institutional clients on technical analysis in workshops around the world and on an intra-day trading basis and brings this expertise to R.J. O’Brien in covering the commodity, interest rate, FX, and equity asset classes utilizing momentum, sentiment, Fibonacci, and Elliott Wave technical disciplines. Dave graduated from Purdue University with a B.S. in Business Management/Finance.

Andrew Koretz
Andrew Koretz joined R.J. O’Brien as a research analyst in May 2008. Andrew graduated from the Pennsylvania State University with a B.S. in Agricultural Business Management.