This is Trend Following Radio, where great thinking comes alive.

Nobel Prize winners, legendary traders, bestselling authors, and the pros that know what drive us irrational human beings.

I am your host, Michael Covel.

Not filtered, raw, honest.

That's my passion.

I hate to pick on just one group.

One population, one demographic, one age group in particular.

Somebody could very easily pick on my group, my cohort, my demographic.

But I'm looking at right now, courtesy of Amerit Trade, the brokerage firm. I'm looking at something called the 2018

Millennials and Money Survey, Attitudes Towards Money, Retirement, and Life in General.

And there just happens to be a very gorgeous woman on the front of this. I guess that means

something about making all that money.

You make all the money and the gorgeous woman comes too. Right there on the front page,

they're telling you what it's all about. There's only one key stat I really want to throw out at you.

Half, 53% of millennials, expect to become a millionaire at some stage in their lives

or are already millionaires. Over seven in ten, 73 percent. Male millennials expect to become

a millionaire at some stage of their lives. Only four in ten female millennials say the same, only 38%, so about half.

That's a lot of optimism.

A lot of optimism without a lot of math.

Because the standard-issue job, after taxes around the globe working for the man,

go add it up and tell me where that million

bucks comes from. Hell, half of Americans don't have $1,000 in the bank. So clearly our

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