Tracey Ryniec

Tracey Ryniec is a Zacks stock strategist. She manages the Insider Trader and Value Investor services. Before joining Zacks, Ms. Ryniec litigated complex securities and insurance cases representing tech titans and Fortune 100 companies in San Francisco and Silicon Valley at the law firms of Brobeck, Phleger & Harrison -now defunct, a victim of the dot-com bust- and Cooley LLP. Having lived in the Bay Area during the dot-com boom, Tracey quickly realized she was more interested in stocks and the stock market than in actually litigating her cases, and she made a career-changing move.

She can now be happily found covering value stocks for Zacks.com in Chicago, in addition to running her trading service portfolios. Ms. Ryniec has appeared in Barrons, CNBC.com, and Marketwatch. She graduated from the University of Michigan with a degree in history. Tracey attended Princeton University, where she studied in the Near Eastern Studies department before graduating with a Master's in Middle Eastern Studies from the University of Chicago. Armed with her advanced degree, she worked at the National Security Archive in Washington, DC, on issues regarding the first Persian Gulf War. Tracey also holds a Juris Doctorate from the University of Pennsylvania.

You can follow her tweets on her favorite obsessions, which currently include the housing market, China, and the emerging markets, and great stock finds at @TraceyRyniec.