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 22:43Tomislav Tunkovic10.00CustomSolution Broken
Run Statistics
#DateScoreWall TimeCPU UserCPU SystemMemoryError
1Sep 4, 2026 23:04011,464,46801,530,0002,121,728line 2: expected liquidate 5 0 11500000 got liquidate 6 -6418 6017082
2Sep 4, 2026 23:04011,447,47001,687,0002,121,728line 1: expected liquidate 8 -595134 13505154 got liquidate 10 -402017 16936920
3Sep 4, 2026 23:04011,313,94601,519,0002,121,728line 1: expected liquidate 1 -158948 6028455 got 0 0
4Jun 5, 2026 20:391,43327,917,31617,561,0001,068,0002,113,536
5Jun 5, 2026 20:391,49128,812,50718,321,0001,063,0002,113,536
6Jun 5, 2026 20:391,56329,929,90818,248,0002,071,0002,113,536
7Jun 5, 2026 20:391,56629,546,24319,297,0001,065,0002,113,536
8Jun 5, 2026 20:391,57429,668,75919,418,0001,056,0002,113,536
9Jun 5, 2026 20:391,60130,041,30719,719,0001,098,0002,113,536
10Jun 5, 2026 20:391,61330,230,83719,926,0001,051,0002,113,536
11Jun 5, 2026 20:391,62030,450,94620,013,0001,050,0002,113,536
12Jun 5, 2026 20:391,73031,766,18221,430,0001,070,0002,113,536