Credit Suisse has a secret formula for finding winning tech stocks and these are the latest picks

Lisa Su, president and chief executive officer of Advanced Micro Devices (AMD), holds a 3rd generation Ryzen desktop processor while speaking during a keynote session at the 2019 Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in Las Vegas, Jan. 9, 2019.
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Tech has been the fastest rising sector in the S&P 500 sector this year, but two characteristics can help investors pick the stocks that will lead their tech peers, according to Credit Suisse.

These two factors were found by Ada, Credit Suisse's new quant system that is designed to identify trends. Ada can drill down within sectors, even those like tech that are easily outrunning the broader market, to find the underlying trends and identify the biggest winners.