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 Tunkovic10.00CustomSolution Broken
Run Statistics
#DateScoreWall TimeCPU UserCPU SystemMemoryError
1Sep 4, 2026 17:4008,911,199834,00002,113,536line 2: expected liquidate 7 -267424 6530904 got liquidate 11 -8542 19572996
2Sep 4, 2026 17:4008,781,168826,00002,113,536line 8: expected liquidate 13 -27936 1150992 got liquidate 9 55318 10588140
3Sep 4, 2026 17:4008,862,738831,00002,113,536line 1: expected liquidate 6 -3619 543620 got liquidate 12 -4921 6385790
4Jun 8, 2026 17:171,33124,968,74416,223,0001,083,0002,113,536
5Jun 8, 2026 17:171,38925,696,06817,001,0001,063,0002,113,536
6Jun 8, 2026 17:171,43526,607,73017,557,0001,098,0002,113,536
7Jun 8, 2026 17:171,43826,281,60417,600,0001,096,0002,113,536
8Jun 8, 2026 17:171,50927,218,51418,574,0001,049,0002,113,536
9Jun 8, 2026 17:171,51527,332,05018,653,0001,044,0002,113,536
10Jun 8, 2026 17:171,52027,491,40418,705,0001,064,0002,113,536
11Jun 8, 2026 17:171,55727,862,35419,207,0001,036,0002,113,536
12Jun 8, 2026 17:171,62128,685,17520,028,0001,055,0002,113,536