About Us

Silver Trading Company LLC

Larry LaBorde founded Silver Trading Company LLC in 2001 after becoming interested in gold and silver as investments. The closely held firm delivers high volume, investment grade gold, silver, platinum and palladium to private and corporate clients around the world.

Larry, Christopher and their small staff take pride in offering very competitive commissions and fees and in delivering warm, friendly service that is attentive, respectful and discreet. We have found that a little Southern hospitality goes a long way. We welcome and are grateful for your business.

We are very pleased to have maintained an A+ rating with the Better Business Bureau.

Larry LaBorde

Larry LaBorde

Larry’s interest in precious metals originated at age eight, when he made his first trade after learning that the new 1965 coins were made with far lower silver content than earlier coins. He promptly exchanged new coins for older, more valuable coins that he gathered from the tellers at the bank where his dad was a board member and from the lunch ladies at school. He was thrilled at having spotted such a rich opportunity because of a stupid move by the government, and his fate as a metals broker was sealed.

In high school, recruiters from MIT and the Naval Academy came calling, but Larry had already made the decision to marry his sweetheart and follow in his father’s footsteps in the water well drilling business, so he went to Louisiana Tech University and trained as a civil engineer. After college, he returned to Shreveport and took over operations of the family business. He is active, along with his four brothers, in both the water well drilling business started by his father and a water well supply business.

Larry enjoys traveling with his wife of 35 years and racing dinghy-sized sailboats. He is active in the Shreveport Lions Club and the McNeill Street Pump Station preservation effort. An avid student of monetary history and U.S. history and politics, he is the author of Investing Without a Net, and Other Random Thoughts (in press).

Larry and his wife, the lovely Miss Puddy, have two grown children and live in Shreveport, Louisiana (USA) with Gracie, a border collie who likes to bark at the second hand of the wall clock, and Vela, a border collie who looks sweet and innocent in between stealing treats. When not traveling, studying or playing with the dogs, Larry occasionally goes on mini-adventures with Miss Puddy to do things like jump out of a perfectly good airplane.

All good things must come to an end - In August of 2022, Larry lost his battle with heart disease in a very swift and merciful ending. Despite being far too young (64) and his health improving on a daily basis from the bi-pass surgery he had received two years prior, it was unfortunately his time to move on from his worldly body and all of its concerns. We miss him every day and for the many of you that knew him as a customer and a friend, I know that you do as well.

Christopher continues to operate Silver Trading Company and continues Larry's writing on his topics.

Christopher LaBorde

Christopher (Larry's son) was well indoctrinated into the merits of precious metals from a very young age. Precious metals were even part of Christopher's story from the very beginning, as Larry paid for Christopher's birth with some of the precious metals he saved from when he was a boy. Growing up, many dinner time conversations were filled with a mixture of discussions on macro-economics, following the money trail and small business ownership challenges. Some of these conversations involved exploring discussions around how things could be done differently in the U.S. and how they are done differently in other countries.

After graduating the University of Kansas Aerospace Engineering program and living in Nashville for a number of years, Christopher decided to visit a Silver Trading Customer in the United Arab Emirates. Shortly after visiting Christopher made the decision to move to the U.A.E. to learn more about Middle Eastern cultures as well as many other cultures of the world that had residents living in the UAE.

While in Dubai Christopher met his wife and mother of their two children, a French national named Florence. Christopher and Florence are raising their two children Oscar (named after Larry's father) and Ottilie in the Xpat community in Dubai, and introducing them to the sport of sailboat racing between his precious metals writing and his day job of creating national refrigerant gas management programs for GCC countries.

Christopher writes a weekly news letter under the title of The Sophisticated Chimp that covers many of the topics that Larry was popular for writing about.

Please email him at Chris@silvertrading.net if you would like help with precious metals or would like to be included in the news letter mailing of The Sophisticated Chimp.