Cross-Margin Liquidation Engine yenw0d

Simulate a cross-margin derivatives engine: process trades, track account equity, and liquidate undercollateralized accounts as fast as possible.

Accounts are funded with a USD deposit and trade instruments whose prices change over time. When a price update causes an account’s equity to fall below 1% of its total position notional, the account must be liquidated.

Definitions

  • Account equity = balance + Σ(size_i * price_i) - Σ(total_paid_i)
  • Total position notional = Σ(|size_i| * price_i)
  • Total paid for instrument i = signed sum of trade_size * price_at_trade_time across all trades
  • Margin rule: liquidate if equity < total_notional / 100 after any price update

Input

One command per line on STDIN:

  • a <balance> – create account with USD balance (IDs start at 0, incrementing)
  • p <instrument_idx> <price> – set/update instrument price (0-indexed)
  • t <account_idx> <instrument_idx> <size> – trade size (signed) at current price
  • Final line: <account_idx> – query this account and terminate

Output

On each price update, liquidate all accounts violating the margin rule. For each liquidation, print:

liquidate <account_id> <equity> <position_notional>

Liquidation order: largest total position notional first, then account ID descending as tie-breaker. Liquidated accounts have their balance and positions cleared.

For the final query, print <equity> <notional> for the requested account.

Constraints

  • Accounts: <= 100,000
  • Instruments: <= 1,000
  • Price range: 100 to 1,000,000
  • Trade size range: 1 to 10,000

Example

a 100
p 0 100
t 0 0 10
p 0 90
0

Output:

liquidate 0 0 900
0 0
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Challenge History
DateChallengerCostTypeStatus
Sep 9, 2026 09:50Tomislav Tunkovic17.09CustomSolution Broken
Run Statistics
#DateScoreWall TimeCPU UserCPU SystemMemoryError
1Sep 9, 2026 09:52034,051,962,262875,584,0004,182,549,00040,960line 10: expected liquidate 10 15972 7800144 got liquidate 3 1784 189996
2Sep 9, 2026 09:52030,748,074,600782,827,0003,591,327,000106,496line 2: expected liquidate 3 27224 4180688 got liquidate 6 3958 9233928
3Sep 9, 2026 09:52031,403,219,574803,624,0003,623,817,00081,920line 25: expected liquidate 4 15996 10589718 got liquidate 4 -71714 10502008
4Dec 26, 2025 17:286,608116,535,81979,908,0005,993,0002,478,080
5Dec 26, 2025 17:286,767110,676,11780,973,0006,997,0002,318,336
6Dec 26, 2025 17:286,957116,255,27189,434,0001,004,0002,445,312