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 20:55Tomislav Tunkovic10.00CustomSolution Broken
Run Statistics
#DateScoreWall TimeCPU UserCPU SystemMemoryError
1Sep 4, 2026 21:03011,442,7491,541,00002,121,728line 2: expected liquidate 4 -28768 1100252 got liquidate 1 60140 8470528
2Sep 4, 2026 21:03011,388,1861,513,00002,121,728line 3: expected liquidate 4 -34980 1034454 got liquidate 8 -43157 2923760
3Sep 4, 2026 21:03011,599,19201,551,0002,121,728line 2: expected liquidate 3 -198470 6700258 got liquidate 4 -49253 13251089
4Jun 6, 2026 17:431,47428,368,79518,090,0001,075,0002,113,536
5Jun 6, 2026 17:431,47428,508,91518,105,0001,058,0002,113,536
6Jun 6, 2026 17:431,49629,047,84817,340,0002,108,0002,113,536
7Jun 6, 2026 17:431,52429,096,34618,756,0001,065,0002,113,536
8Jun 6, 2026 17:431,52829,060,19918,816,0001,054,0002,113,536
9Jun 6, 2026 17:431,56829,678,60019,286,0001,100,0002,113,536
10Jun 6, 2026 17:431,61130,178,56319,907,0001,048,0002,113,536
11Jun 6, 2026 17:431,63630,493,58420,208,0001,066,0002,113,536
12Jun 6, 2026 17:431,69042,675,68219,855,0002,120,0002,117,632