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 17:2808,841,080742,00002,113,536line 2: expected liquidate 0 -220662 7153434 got liquidate 4 90642 28298694
2Sep 4, 2026 17:2808,772,972685,00002,113,536line 1: expected liquidate 2 -258620 6999145 got 0 0
3Sep 4, 2026 17:2808,753,925719,00002,113,536line 2: expected liquidate 6 -123221 4281270 got liquidate 11 -184837 18765072
4Jun 13, 2026 18:251,41925,877,24517,380,0001,072,0002,113,536
5Jun 13, 2026 18:251,44226,263,92317,706,0001,043,0002,113,536
6Jun 13, 2026 18:251,44826,249,79517,786,0001,048,0002,113,536
7Jun 13, 2026 18:251,45626,442,16017,887,0001,052,0002,113,536
8Jun 13, 2026 18:251,48026,700,52118,158,0001,094,0002,113,536
9Jun 13, 2026 18:251,50327,061,27318,450,0001,089,0002,113,536
10Jun 13, 2026 18:251,52328,403,11318,772,0001,039,0002,113,536
11Jun 13, 2026 18:251,56227,821,53019,261,0001,047,0002,113,536
12Jun 13, 2026 18:251,56429,948,98219,290,0001,049,0002,113,536