I'm in the county town, and you say I'm a big shot?

Chapter 363 Tomorrow's Cube Construction Begins
"Huh?" Qiao Yongfeng was slightly surprised, while Ding Haibin looked at Fang Qingye with an incredulous expression.

What a coincidence!

"Brother Qiao, let's go." Fang Qingye called out, and the three of them left the room, leaving only Ding Haibin inside. He let out a long sigh of relief, looking like he had just escaped a disaster.

Fang Qingye went downstairs, greeted Ding's father who was working, and then left the courtyard.

"Qingye, are you really going to let him go? You really don't plan to call the police?" Qiao Yongfeng, who was following behind, asked.

“Calling the police is too much trouble. I have to wait for the police to collect evidence and accept their investigation. And what good will it do if he mentions Baorong Company? At most, it's a civil dispute. Baorong apologizes, but how much compensation can they give? I really don't need that little bit of money.”

Fang Qingye chuckled softly and said, "Since they like to play dirty tricks, I'll play along! It'll be easier to hand them over to Lin Guangmao and the others first."

After saying that, he took out his phone and dialed Zhu Yi's number.

"I've found Ding Haibin's hiding place; it's right in Huijingpukou."

"And the company behind this is called Baorong Fund Management Co., Ltd., which is a private equity fund."

Okay, goodbye.

Fang Qingye returned to Nanxin that afternoon.

Fang Qingye no longer cared about Ding Haibin himself; his current target was Baorong Company.

However, a week later, a news report appeared on a media website in the Huijing area that a man surnamed Ding in Pukou, Huijing, was beaten and sent to the hospital by several unidentified people.

The injured person turned out to be a reporter from Sina.com, but strangely, he did not choose to report the incident to the police.
Time flew by and it was early July.

This year's rainy season came early and left early; the humid and hot weather has passed, and now it's sunny all the time.

Summer vacation is here.

Fang Qingye was of course not concerned about summer vacation; what he cared about was that the students recruited by Tomorrow Cube would officially graduate and be able to report to the company to start work.

Wei Xinghua's team has upgraded the quantitative trading software "QuantPulse" (QP) to version 1.5, which is now ready to run. For this purpose, Fang Qingye transferred 16 billion yuan to Tuofang Technology in advance, which was then transferred to Tomorrow Cube's account through Li Li.

15 billion was used as principal for stock investment, and the remaining 1 million was used for the company's daily operations.

The software's official entry into the A-share market means that Cube will officially open for business tomorrow. As the company's CEO, I can't afford not to attend such a day.

Therefore, an auspicious day was specially chosen: July 13th, the 13th day of the sixth lunar month. The almanac shows that it is suitable for marriage, moving, signing contracts, moving into a new house, and opening a business.
Fang Qingye arrived in Shanghai a day early and checked into the Ritz-Carlton Hotel. The next day at 7:50, Fang Qingye finished breakfast and prepared to go to the company.

Today, he didn't wear his usual T-shirt and casual pants. Instead, he wore a white shirt, short-sleeved shirt, black pants, and a blue tie, making him look very formal.

He took the elevator to the company on the 37th floor of Building B. It was exactly eight o'clock. When he got off the elevator and came to the corridor, apart from a young girl in a white shirt and OL skirt standing at the reception desk, there were crowds of people standing on both sides of the corridor. They were all employees of Tuofang Technology and Tomorrow Cube Company, all wearing the uniforms issued by the company.

The man wore a suit, short-sleeved shirt, black trousers, and a tie; the woman wore a white short-sleeved shirt and a black pencil skirt.

Standing at the front were senior executives from both companies: Li Li, Xu Mei, and Wei Xinghua.

"Hello, Mr. Fang!"

When they saw Fang Qingye coming over, everyone shouted in unison.

"Hello everyone!"

Fang Qingye replied with a smile.

Um.
They look quite neat and energetic.

Although Fang Qingye did not invite anyone to congratulate her, whether it was friends from Nanxin or from Shanghai, and did not ask for flower baskets or anything like that, she still held a simple unveiling ceremony.

Fang Qingye, Xu Mei, and Wei Xinghua unveiled the red silk cloth covering the company's nameplate, and enthusiastic applause erupted in the corridor.

The unveiling ceremony has now concluded, and everyone is back in their places to get on with their own tasks.

Accompanied by Li Li and others, Fang Qingye toured the company with great interest.

Like other quantitative investment companies, Tomorrow Cube has a flat organizational structure, which is divided into two main parts: the front office and the back office.

The back office mainly consists of traditional departments such as human resources, finance, and administration, but Fang Qingye didn't divide them into such detailed departments, only setting up two departments: the Human Resources and Finance Department and the Administration and Logistics Department.

The company has fewer than 50 people, so there's no need for so many leaders. The front desk is further divided into three teams: strategy, IT, and modeling. These are the company's core departments.

The strategy team's main responsibility is to develop statistical models to predict market trends and find investment opportunities with excess returns. The team leader is Cai Wang, a doctoral student at Shencai University.

The IT team's main tasks include building and optimizing relevant trading systems, implementing certain trading strategies in live trading, optimizing code, cleaning and processing data, troubleshooting and resolving issues, etc. Su Hua, a computer science master's student from Jiaotong University, is the team leader, and Miao Wei is also in this team.

The last group is the model group, which uses various deep learning and machine learning methods to model multiple types of data, discover data patterns, find the inherent logic of the data, and continuously optimize the model. The group leader is Zhao Chaoyi, a PhD in Financial Mathematics from Shanghai Jiao Tong University.

“President Fang, the model team is currently building a mathematical model of the US stock market, which is also based on my MRW method and the principle of quantum potential energy,” Wei Xinghua explained.

Fang Qingye nodded.

He knew that quantitative trading models were not a single model but a set, including prediction models, risk models, transaction cost models, portfolio construction models, execution models, and so on.

So he asked Zhao Chaoyi, who was standing next to him, "Dr. Zhao, when will it be completed?"

"It can be completed in October."

Upon hearing this, Fang Qingye turned her gaze to Su Hua from the IT team.

Su Hua understood his meaning and quickly replied, "If the model team can deliver the product in early October, then our IT team can complete the software development by the end of December and enter the trial operation phase, striving to officially launch it before the Spring Festival next year. However..."

"But what?"

“The IT team only has 11 people right now, which is a bit insufficient,” Su Hua said.

"How many more do you need?" Fang Qingye asked.

"We need 4 or 5 more, preferably master's students."

"Then you should look in society! Or poach people from other internet or financial investment companies!" Fang Qingye made the decision immediately.

After saying that, he looked at Xu Mei and said, "You are in charge of this matter. Have Director Wei and Team Leader Su cooperate. Hire the kind of people they need!"

"Okay, Mr. Fang."

"Are there enough people in the model team?" Fang Qingye asked Zhao Chaoyi again.

"That's enough, I'll make Seung-hyun my deputy," Zhao Chaoyi said with a smile.

Fang Qingye certainly knew who Shengxuan was: a PhD from Jiaotong University, and a classmate and friend of Zhao Chaoyi, who was recruited together.

but
"Didn't Zhou Shengxuan study basic mathematics? He researched complex geometry and Riemannian geometry, which have little to do with financial modeling?" Fang Qingye asked.

“When he was pursuing his master’s degree, he studied financial mathematics subjects such as multivariate statistical analysis and complex functions. Since last year, he has been self-studying monetary banking and financial engineering, and now he can do modeling work,” Zhao Chaoyi explained.

"That's good." Fang Qingye nodded. "But tell him not to forget the basic math concepts; they'll be very useful in the future!"

"Ok."

After going around in circles, we finally arrived at the company's core area—the trading room.

"There's a specially designed access control system here. You need to swipe a card to get in. Only authorized personnel can enter; no one else can." Wei Xinghua took out a card, swiped it on the access control system, and the green light in front of the door lit up. Several people walked into the trading room.

It's a bit like a VIP trading room, with twenty computer screens and several staff members busy at work.

"We are currently checking the program's auto-start to ensure that trading starts and runs normally. This includes checking the program's automatic startup status while logging into the securities server system, as well as checking the trading assistant's settings."

Wei Xinghua explained.

Fang Qingye felt a little ashamed looking at all this. To be honest, she was only responsible for allocating the money, and the actual construction was entirely handled by Wei Xinghua—her own team and the internet company she contacted.

It was not yet nine o'clock, and there was still half an hour before the A-share market opened. Fang Qingye wanted to see how well Wei Xinghua's software performed in actual use, so she did not leave for the time being.

He told Wei Xinghua and the others to get busy, and chatted with Li Li and Xu Mei in his office.

Just then, the girl who had been greeting people at the front desk hurriedly knocked on the office door.

"Mr. Fang, Mr. Li Wei, General Manager of Baorong Investment Fund Company, has come to congratulate the company on its opening."

(End of this chapter)