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Felix Prehn - Iran War: The US Is Secretly Bailing Out The Stock Market (Again) + Stock Market News 03 March 2026 (Goat Academy)

March 2, 2026·33 min·2 clips

Your portfolio just got hit—and nobody's talking about it

He opens by calling the Iran situation a shiny object. He says the stock market story is really what is happening behind the curtain. The news feed is loud, and he says regular investors miss the move that matters. He promises data and three specific investment ideas. First of all, oil. He calls oil a trap that can burn most of the world, and then a trap that can burn most people. Second is gold, because he says it holds value longer than oil and that matters for what you might want to be doing. Third is defense stocks, and he says a lot of big money is likely to move there quietly. He asks whether the defense trade is too early or too late. The whole monologue keeps snapping back to sell rules. He says Wall Street has three simple rules for when to sell. He offers to teach them live at a free training and warns the room will probably be full. He also reminds listeners that selling is not only about taking profit. It is also about selling things that are down a little bit, avoiding big risks, getting out of positions that are slipping, and sleeping well. Then he starts pricing war hardware in plain dollars. Patriot missiles are about $4 million each, an F-35 about $80 million, and a Patriot battery about $800 million. He points to the backlog numbers at RTX, Lockheed Martin, and Northrop Grumman as evidence that the defense machine is already loaded. RTX is sitting on roughly $251 billion in orders, Lockheed on $194 billion, and Northrop on about $95 billion. He says you can judge the ethics if you want, but the money still moves the way the money moves. He closes by pushing the training again and hammering the point that 90% of retail investors buy well, hold well, and then give it all back.

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A war headline becomes a lesson in exits, oil, gold, and defense.

This episode treats Iran as the spark, but keeps the emphasis on the market reaction beneath it. It moves through oil, gold, and defense stocks with a steady trader's lens, and Felix Prehn returns often to one practical point: exit discipline matters as much as entry timing.

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