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 4, 2026 17:19Tomislav Tunkovic11.87CustomSolution Broken
Run Statistics
#DateScoreWall TimeCPU UserCPU SystemMemoryError
1Sep 4, 2026 17:2308,728,590711,00002,113,536line 4: expected liquidate 6 -93558 2586857 got liquidate 5 -56463 8034312
2Sep 4, 2026 17:2308,830,059687,00002,113,536line 0: expected liquidate 2 -2533 5868311 got 0 0
3Sep 4, 2026 17:2309,042,673818,00002,113,536line 3: expected liquidate 1 -165232 6353350 got liquidate 8 75462 13886218
4Apr 30, 2026 15:131,81742,276,99722,595,0001,027,0002,498,560
5Apr 30, 2026 15:131,87540,858,95722,346,0002,031,0002,355,200
6Apr 30, 2026 15:131,90041,447,55623,680,0001,029,0002,469,888
7Apr 30, 2026 15:131,91043,929,17020,858,0003,972,0002,314,240
8Apr 30, 2026 15:131,92541,170,75022,022,0003,003,0002,482,176
9Apr 30, 2026 15:132,00039,686,87525,001,0001,000,0002,437,120
10Apr 30, 2026 15:132,11646,076,13924,463,0003,057,0002,420,736
11Apr 30, 2026 15:132,16445,939,60224,117,0004,019,0002,322,432
12Apr 30, 2026 15:132,27147,126,90928,515,0001,018,0002,473,984