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 Tunkovic21.86CustomSolution Broken
Run Statistics
#DateScoreWall TimeCPU UserCPU SystemMemoryError
1Sep 9, 2026 09:500255,596,771200,459,00044,971,00010,510,336line 15: expected liquidate 7 111589 11430852 got liquidate 11 114615 14632196
2Sep 9, 2026 09:500280,280,887223,707,00046,418,00012,206,080line 4: expected liquidate 6 7096 992553 got liquidate 6 -36367 949090
3Sep 9, 2026 09:500285,297,354223,848,00050,631,00013,979,648line 8: expected liquidate 14 -11346 1490169 got liquidate 7 -5326325 6001354
4Dec 29, 2025 00:134,37383,910,01752,858,0003,989,0002,318,336
5Dec 29, 2025 00:134,85987,436,09560,154,0003,007,0002,318,336
6Dec 29, 2025 00:134,91494,626,51260,884,0002,994,0002,387,968
7Dec 29, 2025 00:134,91592,184,13959,896,0003,993,0002,363,392
8Dec 29, 2025 00:135,44895,845,46768,830,0001,995,0002,396,160
9Dec 29, 2025 00:135,835106,610,54873,853,0001,996,0002,461,696