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 19:32Tomislav Tunkovic10.00CustomSolution Broken
Run Statistics
#DateScoreWall TimeCPU UserCPU SystemMemoryError
1Sep 4, 2026 19:40011,502,74801,972,0002,179,072line 2: expected liquidate 10 -59576 4376128 got liquidate 21 17638 4336800
2Sep 4, 2026 19:40011,113,07601,686,00036,864No answer to stdout. Died or killed?
3May 20, 2026 12:071,56029,451,13118,110,0002,173,0002,129,920
4May 20, 2026 12:071,65530,674,67319,254,0002,272,0002,129,920
5May 20, 2026 12:071,68731,052,34420,875,0001,066,0002,174,976
6May 20, 2026 12:071,75932,042,89720,746,0002,124,0002,174,976
7May 20, 2026 12:071,77532,237,83320,810,0002,273,0002,129,920
8May 20, 2026 12:071,77632,314,98120,814,0002,279,0002,134,016
9May 20, 2026 12:071,78832,348,95521,204,0002,042,0002,174,976
10May 20, 2026 12:071,80432,694,55221,423,0002,031,0002,174,976
11May 20, 2026 12:071,91133,968,47322,375,0002,468,0002,129,920