Dylan Jin-Ngo is a seventeen-year-old boy who became fascinated with the stock market in sixth grade. “Being able to invest without my age being a barrier was something so unique,” Dylan told yahoo Finance about what motivated him. “I learned on my own for the past 3 or 4 years, and I became the youngest certified mutual fund counsellor in the nation in 2020”. The teen investor from Huntington Beach now spends much of his free time teaching other teenagers like him about the stock markets. He also leads a literacy program through his non-profit Young investors Corp., in partnership with the Boys and Girls Clubs in Los Angeles and Orange County. Popular topics discussed among his students includes meme stocks and cryptocurrency. “Throughout our five-week program, it shifts some questions like what you think about AMC (AMC)?. What do you think about bitcoin (BTC-USD)?” Said Dylan. “Towards the end, it shifts to more about- how can I get my own stock portfolio? How can I talk to my parents about opening my own brokerage account?
At the moment, some 350 students have gone through the Youth investor’s financial literacy program. Dylan is currently working on a bill with a local assemblyman to create a pilot financial literacy program for public and charter schools in California. “I think something like financial literacy, which is so critical in shaping a youth’s future, is something that should be widely available to everyone,” said Dylan. “Financial literacy should not be limited by socioeconomic status or opportunity”. Dylan says young people’s increasing involvement in the markets isn’t just a fad.