Felix Prehn: A Former Banker in Your Stock Market Corner
"The stock market is full of risks. The only way to lower the probability of serious losses is to learn the rules and playbooks that Wall Street experts and bankers know, but never share."
-Felix Prehn
Felix Prehn is an economist and former investment banker. For over 5 years, he has been translating the stock market, earnings, and economic news in plain language, so regular people may see what Wall Street is doing with their money.
He started the Felix and Friends YouTube channel in 2020 during the pandemic. Three to four new videos go up every week, each one explaining a market move, a stock, or a useful strategy.
Over time, that work grew into a YouTube channel with 667,000 subscribers and over 80 million views (and growing daily), plus a free community of investors who learn together.
Felix and Winston, His Adopted Golden Retriever
The same man who breaks down Wall Street for strangers spends his free hours on something with no charts in it at all. Felix has a soft spot for four-legged creatures, and the dog beside him in the videos is part of a much bigger habit of taking in animals nobody else wanted.
Winston, Felix's adopted Golden Retriever, 'co-hosts' the Felix and Friends YouTube content and turns up across his videos. Felix signs many of his public review replies as "Felix and Winston."
Felix is publicly vocal about animal rescue and adoption. Same message, every time: adopt, don't shop.
The instinct to protect the vulnerable shows up in Felix Prehn's teaching too, where the first lesson is never about profit. It is about not losing what you already have.
Felix Prehn on Risk and Learning to Trade
Most people lose money in the stock market for one reason: nobody taught them the rules. They buy stocks on a tip, hold through fear, and watch the price fall.
From the Trading Floor to Financial Freedom
Felix learned different trading rules inside the stock markets. As a former investment banker, he saw how institutions move money from sector to sector while regular investors get left behind.
Then a back injury pushed him off the trading floor for good. Sitting still with the knowledge he had spent a career collecting, he kept circling one thought: the people who most needed the rules were the ones who never got to hear them. So he started teaching, and the order he chose said everything.
Why Risk Comes First
Felix Prehn’s lessons start with risk, not profit.
Risk management first, because protecting your money is what keeps you in the game long enough to grow it. As Felix often says:
"There is no magic formula or miracle trade. The aim is to build a framework, develop discipline and learn how to make decisions with a clear head rather than emotions."
The Mission Important for You: Financial Freedom for a Million People
Felix has one stated goal: get a million people onto the path to financial education and financial freedom.
The stated goal is why 90% of everything he teaches is free. Felix Prehn says the stock market was built to feel complicated, and the complication keeps ordinary people out. Removing it, for as many people as possible, is the work he cares about.
Felix's quote makes you think:
"Managing money is a skill like any other. Would you learn to drive a car by going on the freeway and figuring it out?"
Felix Prehn in the Press
The ex-investment banker has spent five years explaining stock market movements on YouTube. At some point, financial publications started paying attention, and many wrote about what Felix Nikolas Prehn is doing and why it matters.
Here's a selection:
Felix Prehn spent five years explaining markets, earnings, and economic trends in plain language, and his YouTube channel just crossed 76 million views. A May 29, 2026 Yahoo Finance feature points to the number as proof: people were waiting for someone to turn public financial data into something they could follow. Ninety percent of what he teaches stays free, and risk comes first in every lesson.
"The 76 million views point to a gap between what people need to know and what schools and media have provided."... "Felix Prehn's channel turns publicly available data into plain-language explanations anyone can follow."
You want a method you can follow, step by step, not a stream of stock tips. UrbanMatter looked at what Felix Prehn teaches and found exactly that. Plain English. Risk first. A structure students stay with month after month. The 4.5 stars from 560+ reviews say the rest.
"Felix Prehn organizes lessons in a logical sequence, from market basics to options strategies to portfolio building. Students learn a method they can repeat."
A milestone month for Felix Nikolas Prehn: 25,000 students, nearly 80 million views, a 4.6 Trustpilot rating, and his 2,700th published video since he started in 2020. An Associated Press feature from June 12 asks why a former investment banker would spend years building a free public education platform, and the answer points to one gap: most people never get access to the frameworks professional traders use.
"Trustpilot reviewers consistently point to risk management as the single biggest shift in their approach."
Story Turned into Positive Experiences
Press coverage feels good. It does nothing for the trade you place tonight, scared, with money you cannot afford to lose.
Felix knows the fear because he watched regular people get shut out of the knowledge-protecting Wall Street money. So he stopped writing about the problem and started solving it, piece by piece, in public.
Felix Prehn's often-heard quote:
"I'm not a financial adviser, I'm not a registered investment adviser, I'm not telling you what to buy. I'm just sharing with you some research, some insight, and some education that I got from my Wall Street mentors."
Besides the weekly YouTube videos, free downloadable resources, and the daily podcast, Felix kept building.
In recent years, Felix Prehn:
Co-founded TradeVision app
Created the Winston app
Founded Goat Academy, an ever-growing community of people united by one thing: the pursuit of financial freedom
The Winston App
Felix and Goat Academy built the Winston App as a tool for better stock market analysis.
It gives everyday investors a simpler way to read the markets and study stocks, drawing on the same approach Felix shares for free in his channel.
Associated Press praised the Winston app in May 2026 as a tool for better stock market analysis.
TradeVision
Felix co-founded TradeVision.io, a stock screening and charting tool. Investors use it to find potential breakout stocks, screen sectors and industries, and read charts.
Reviewers say it's better than charting tools that cost far more. Goat Academy students get access as part of their training.
Felix Prehn's Goat Academy Reviews
Goat Academy is Felix's online trading and investing school. Over 25,000 students have come through it, and it has a 4.6 rating on Trustpilot from over 550 verified reviews.
What he teaches there is the same knowledge he was given by his own Wall Street mentors.
At the center of it is the Wall Street Protocol, his framework for understanding how institutional money moves through the markets. For Felix, the reasoning never changes; the rules that protect Wall Street money shouldn't stay out of reach of everyday investors.
Frequently Asked Questions
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What is the Felix Prehn podcast and where can I listen to it?
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Goat Academy course runs as a 6 to 12-month journey with ongoing coaching and support. Daily live Zoom lectures and sessions are all recorded for later viewing.
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Yes. Felix launched a free financial education initiative giving U.S. military veterans full trading education at no cost. It was built to support veterans moving into civilian life.
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You can contact Felix at felix@goatacademy.org. He is also active on X at x.com/felixprehn and on LinkedIn.
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It is fully online, so students from any country may join. One-on-one coaching is bookable, and chat support handles quick questions.