Hand-picked metals from a 50-year market veteran.

Pete Thomas leads Pete’s Picks at Ausecure: precious metal products chosen for their performance, potential and safety. With over 50 years of market experience, he applies a keen understanding of investment dynamics to handpick items that appeal to both new investors and seasoned collectors.

His connection to the markets began in childhood. His father traded on the New York Mercantile Exchange (NYMEX) and Chicago Board of Trade (CBOT) floors, where Pete gained early exposure to trading. By age 11 he was drawing his father’s price charts by hand, and he worked as a floor runner through four years of college. After his military service and college, he came back to Chicago, followed in his father’s footsteps with his own membership, and started his career as an Independent Floor Broker and Trader at the Chicago Board of Trade.

During the Hunt Brothers’ run to $50 silver, an order from the Hunts reached Pete in the pit with its spread entered backwards, a desk error that would have cost them heavily if filled. He held the order, had the desk call them, and walked Nelson Bunker Hunt through the fix. Hunt went on to give him orders to fill directly.

Before joining Ausecure, Pete ran a global cash metals desk serving refiners, recyclers, mining operations and coin and bullion companies.

Outside of finance, Pete is a weapons specialist and actor with credits including The Untouchables, Backdraft and Best of the Best 3: No Turning Back (IMDb). He has retired twice, once to tour Europe on a BMW motorcycle with a sidecar and once to race formula cars, and came back to the metals both times.