Buy the dip, not the high. This is probably not the best time to buy stocks heavily for long term hold. The whole house of cards is subject to fold flat any day now.
Just a couple of ideas. Until we get past the next market crash, think about ETFs based on government bonds. ITE, SHY, TIPS, or for long term, VGLT. For leverage, try TMF in a bull market, or TMV in a bear market. When one is going up, the other will be going down. You know what to do. While the indexes are showing the market going up, hold TMF. When it turns, sell it and buy TMV. When the market hits bottom and rallys, buy tech and consumer stocks with a strong bias toward the ones already mentioned in this thread. Bank stocks would be good, too but in the next big bull market I think tech is gonna rule. The communications sector especially, I think, as 5G rolls out, and media, too. Look for NFLX to do some crayzee sheeyit. Sgonna be hyooooooge. Car manufacturers will probably be posting some pretty big numbers, likely with TSLA leading the way. Energy stocks will be sluggish but steady. Pharma and health will probably be lost in the noise but as usual, good for day trading.
BYND's price is fad-driven. I know it has gone up umpty-x since the IPO and original investors are feeling no pain, but no I don't see it as a reliable investment at all, especially now. Stocks whose prices are driven by cachet or social correctness or whatever will go down HARD when the lightweight millennial RH players get shaken out of the market. Don't invest in stocks with a high price to earnings ratio. Those can be fun and profitable for trading but don't invest in them right now. Maybe after the next big crash but not now.
You are a bit late for dinner, really. If you had invested in 2016, or January 2019, or this April, you would be chopping high cotton now. If you had bought TQQQ, a leveraged ETF based on the NASDAQ at the end of March, you would have more than doubled your investment by today. NASDAQ is now at all time high. S&P 500, too. DOW is nearly up to it's previous record. The general public is buying stocks at an alarming rate and prices are reflecting this. When they get shook out, things will get ugly in a hurry. Maybe on the scale of Oct 1929. In the long run stocks will go up and those who never sell will make out okay. The problem is the long run can be awfully long.
Gold is traditionally very safe in a crash, and when the value of the dollar declines, gold is of course going up too. Problem is the smart guys who aren't really so smart will be driving the price action a lot more than in previous crashes. Treasury notes are not stylish or flashy. They won't be nearly as volatile and you will get few surprises. Go for more volatile investments when the market is strongly bullish again.
Quick and simple. Watch for the Dow to drop 5 days in a row or 6 days within any 7 market day period. You are looking for a minimum 10% drop during that period but it will probably be more. You also should see all the pundits proclaiming The Great Crash of 2020 is here. Then watch for the recovery. It will probably be a few weeks or months before that happens, maybe a year. Look at historical crashes and make your own judgement. Whenever you see the market rise two days in a row, buy. Don't load the boat. It might go down some more. Buy some more next time it goes up two days in a row. Then the next time and the next. If it goes up for a week straight you ought to be in with everything you got that you want to invest. This is the simplest way I can think of to handle this. Of course there are all sorts of indicators you can go by, some more reliable than others. The price indexes not opinions. They are what they are.
The above advice is warranted to be worth every penny that you paid for it.
