About

Tracey Ryniec was born and raised in the Chicagoland area, the only daughter of a chemical salesman dad and a personal trainer mom. She has two brothers, both of whom taught her the vital things in life: the difference between a curve ball and a slider and when to use a nine iron versus a pitching wedge.

She attended the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor, graduating with a degree in history. She then studied the Middle East in the Near Eastern Studies Department at Princeton before obtaining a Masters Degree in Middle Eastern Studies from the University of Chicago with a specialization in the Persian Gulf countries. After graduation, she worked in Washington DC at the National Security Archive, a non-profit agency, on military and intelligence issues pertaining to Saddam Hussein and the build-up to Gulf War I in the early 1990s. She subsequently graduated with a Juris Doctorate from the University of Pennsylvania School of Law.

As a lawyer, Tracey was a litigator, practicing in Silicon Valley, San Francisco and Chicago representing a range of clients, including Fortune 100 companies and small tech start-ups.

The Market Updates began in 2001 followed by the first model portfolio, Tracey’s Thrilling Thirty, published in January of 2003.

In addition to Tracey’s Market Update, Tracey has also been a contributing editor writing on securities matters, including insider trading and illegal short selling, for the bi-monthly publication The PIPEs Report (Private Investment in Public Equity) and has contributed to the Small Cap Report (both published by Deal Flow Media).

She is currently an editor at Zacks Investments in Chicago.

Contact Tracey at tracey@traceysmarketupdate.com