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Felix Nikolas Prehn is an economist and former investment banker, trained in London and Hong Kong.
Felix Prehn
Felix Nikolas Prehn is an economist and former investment banker, trained in London and Hong Kong.
Felix founded Goat Academy, where former Wall Street and City of London professionals teach. He co-founded TradeVision.io, a stock screening and charting tool.
Felix has appeared in podcasts with Jim Rogers, Tom Bilyeu, and other prominent figures in finance and business.
Yahoo Finance and the Associated Press have covered Felix and Goat Academy.
Winston is his adopted golden retriever. Felix is a vocal advocate for animal rescue.
His reading of markets was shaped by mentors who spent careers inside the institutions: hedge fund managers, Wall Street professionals, and senior banking figures.
Goat Academy
Former Wall Street and City of London professionals teach at Goat Academy.
On Felix's initiative, Goat Academy runs a free financial education programme for U.S. military veterans.
WinstonDaily.com
WinstonDaily.com is Felix's daily publication.
Every morning, Winston writes you a one-page paper about your names and nothing else. What moved, who bought, who sold, and what it means for you, in plain English, before your first coffee is cold.
Animal rescue
I have ten rescue animals, including Winston, my golden retriever. People often don't believe they all came from a shelter, or even the street.
I have fostered a lot of cats and the hardest part is letting them go.
Adopt, don't buy.
Art
Felix Prehn paints and sculpts. It is not something he discusses at length, which is perhaps why it shows up in the work.
The paintings tend toward the expressive: colour and movement over precision. The sculptures are quieter. Both reflect the same instinct, a preference for things made slowly, by hand, with no particular audience in mind.
Felix Inspiration
Asked who his biggest inspiration is, Felix Prehn answers without hesitation.
My maternal grandmother.
She grew up in Germany during the Second World War. She learned scarcity, improvisation, and the cost of rebuilding a country taken apart.
My grandmother was the most powerful woman in the German garment industry. She was, across the whole of her career, the only woman at the board table.
She stood four foot nine.
I have not met a more powerful person.
There is a quality that certain people carry. It has nothing to do with height, volume, or the number of people under them. It causes a room to reorganise itself the moment they enter. My grandmother had this completely. She was not someone to cross; she was also the finest ally you could have. She knew, at any given moment, precisely which she was being.
She did not speak at length about what she had built. What she communicated, without instruction, was a set of standards. Precision. Independence. The refusal to be diminished by a room that had not expected you.
I have been trying to live up to those standards ever since.
All content produced by Felix Prehn is educational in nature and does not constitute financial advice.