The video suggests a gold standard for the stock market is the past return of the SPY, currently showing a 17.55% increase over the past year. Surpassing this percentage indicates better-than-market performance. Examples include a medium-term account up 20.08%. VOO is a cheaper alternative that mirrors SPY's performance. The video highlights the Fortune 500 Invesco SPMO Momentum ETF, ticker SPMO, which has increased 36.03% in the past year, better than SPY. To know when to buy a tech stock, he recommends looking at the P/E ratio, which is 27 for META, a good value, in this case, it is good to buy when the P/E is under 30.