Lee R. Robinson & Associates

Lee R. Robinson & Associates

Lee R. Robinson & Associates is a commodity trading advisor (CTA) established by Lee R. Robinson, a long-tenured figure in the managed futures industry. Robinson began his career at Shearson Lehman Brothers, where he ran a commodity fund before founding the firm that bears his name. He is the author of the book Trader's Guide to the Commodity Markets, published in the late 1980s, which marked him as an early voice in systematic, rules-based trading education. The firm deploys systematic trend-following programs across a diversified basket of global futures markets, spanning agricultural commodities, currencies, interest rates, energy, and metals. Its approach relies on technical models that identify and capture directional price persistence, with risk managed through strict stop-loss discipline and dynamic position sizing. AUM and specific deployment figures are not publicly disclosed, and the firm maintains a low profile relative to larger CTA platforms. Publicly available detail on the firm's current team size, office locations, or adjacent vehicles is limited. Lee R. Robinson has been cited in industry publications and books on trend-following as a practitioner who bridged the era of floor-traded commodities to the era of systematic managed futures. The firm's structure appears to be a tightly held advisory shop rather than a multi-strategy platform, consistent with its founder-led identity. A structural differentiator is the firm's longevity under a single-named founder in a sector where many smaller CTAs fail or close within a decade. Robinson's published work and early entry into systematic trend-following place the firm among a cohort of 1980s-era CTAs that shaped the institutional managed futures category.