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Thomas Ko enters Round 15 as the defending Strategy Lab champ, having finished with a 40% portfolio gain over the final six months of 2006.
It's the best Lab finish in years and the best ever for an amateur running with the pros.
Ko has been a successful trader since he began paper trading at an early age. He calls himself a student of the markets and a master of his own success.
Ko lives in Silicon Valley and has been working for the past decade as an application specific integrated circuit engineer for companies such as LSI Logic (LSI, news, msgs) and Broadcom (BRCM, news, msgs). He earned a bachelor's degree in electrical engineering from San Jose State University with a minor in computer science.
He's a big fan of TheLion.com financial site as well as CNBC's "Squawk Box." The latter led him to enter the show's recent Fantasy Portfolio Challenge, running a $1 million portfolio for about six weeks.
With bold moves, he raised the portfolio to $5 million, making him the top finisher out of 150,221 contestants. That won him the top prize -- a 2006 limited-edition Maserati GranSport -- and an invitation to MSN Money’s Strategy Lab.
