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 21:0008,884,465683,00002,113,536line 2: expected liquidate 3 -108895 18058425 got 0 0
2Sep 4, 2026 21:0008,970,708841,00002,113,536line 1: expected liquidate 6 -43659 1058013 got liquidate 4 59672 14063200
3Sep 4, 2026 21:0008,986,572845,00002,113,536line 4: expected liquidate 11 -305860 14920720 got liquidate 13 -7504 12796179
4Jun 27, 2026 05:401,39125,665,30017,000,0001,085,0002,113,536
5Jun 27, 2026 05:401,39525,692,76616,071,0002,066,0002,113,536
6Jun 27, 2026 05:401,41327,975,74616,343,0002,038,0002,113,536
7Jun 27, 2026 05:401,42225,950,92216,397,0002,097,0002,113,536
8Jun 27, 2026 05:401,46226,497,91216,931,0002,079,0002,113,536
9Jun 27, 2026 05:401,47226,640,57618,077,0001,065,0002,113,536
10Jun 27, 2026 05:401,51427,271,52018,589,0001,093,0002,113,536
11Jun 27, 2026 05:401,57428,191,48118,358,0002,115,0002,113,536
12Jun 27, 2026 05:401,63428,867,14319,194,0002,056,0002,113,536