17-year-old trader Austin Schwab Photo courtesy of Austin Schwab Millennials these days are taking a proactive approach to investing and trading to continue the 40-year trend of individuals taking a more active stance in their investments.

Now armed with more technology than their predecessors and tools like Twitter and Google, millennials are arguably poised to become the most active generation of individual investors.

We recently profiled a young global macro trader who seems to get the markets like a seasoned veteran trader.

After speaking with him, we were introduced to a bunch of teens who actively trade the markets while attending high school and college. They're all members of a community of young investors and traders called Leaders Investment Club.

So we've decided to put together our first ever "20 Under 20" in finance.

Many of these teens said that they look up to idols such as Paul Tudor Jones and Warren Buffett. The most popular investing books among them were Reminiscences of a Stock Operator and Market Wizards. Most of them said that they want to study finance and economics in college and get into the hedge fund industry.