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My stock picking criteria is multi-faceted, but my favorite strategy involves a simple data point that has helped me beat the market for 11 years running.

Now that Donald Trump will be our 45th President, what could happen to growth stocks and the market in general? Here’s what you should do.

My topic today is what I call TOGA stocks, which stands for The Ones that Got Away. I got an email a few weeks back from an acquaintance who is still beating himself up because he didn’t buy Cisco Systems (CSCO) at 10 cents per share (split-adjusted) in 1990 and sell it at 80 in 2000.

Different investment styles have different objectives and require different rules. Value investing looks for undervalued stocks.

One obvious parallel to the tale of GMCR is the tale of AAPL, which has been generating stock gains and headlines for the past decade.

The more I study CMG, the more it reminds me of Coca-Cola and General Electric back in the mid-1990s.

The focus of today’s column is gold, particularly the environment that makes gold stocks, gold ETFs and even gold bullion attractive to investors. For some readers, the highlight will be the 10 gold stocks I’ll discuss.

A growth investor who ignores a bull market is missing an opportunity just as much as a gardener who waits until the end of summer to do the planting. For the gardener, that opportunity won’t come again for a year. For the growth investor . . . who knows?

Take more risk when the market is rewarding risk-takers and take less risk when the market is penalizing risk-takers.

Last week I presented the three top-performing stocks of 2016, which came from very surprising places. Here are five more from a strong year on Wall Street.

First Solar was one of our biggest winners ever back in 2007 to 2008, but honestly, we’ve never found much to get excited about from the company in recent years.

The investment opportunities in the sharing economy trend are still few, but there is one stock that looks great.

Dunkin’ Brands (DNKN) and Green Mountain Coffee Roasters (GMCR) are two bright spots in a sea of negative news.

Apple (AAPL), Baidu (BIDU), Google (GOOG) and Netflix (NFLX) are overviewed by the editor.

It’s difficult to find stocks with big growth potential by watching the parade of pundits on financial TV shows.

You can’t just have a good offense if you’re going to be successful in the market. You also need a good defense, meaning you have to be able to identify when a stock’s major advance has ended and you should book profits.

While tweaks and improvements are always necessary, it’s better to stick with a set of rules and tools over time.

With growth stocks, the very best indicator of which way a stock will go next is which way it’s going now. Which brings me to Tesla Motors (TSLA).

Tesla bypasses the existing auto dealership structure and sells directly to the consumer which at least avoids additional cost dealer would tack on.