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 5, 2026 01:15Tomislav Tunkovic10.00CustomSolution Broken
Run Statistics
#DateScoreWall TimeCPU UserCPU SystemMemoryError
1Sep 5, 2026 02:5109,032,783766,00002,117,632line 1: expected liquidate 1 -182223 4952972 got liquidate 3 134281 15563906stderr
2Sep 5, 2026 02:5109,147,670868,00002,117,632line 1: expected liquidate 3 -5162 1119284 got liquidate 9 26675 3778888stderr
3Sep 5, 2026 02:5109,008,468704,00002,117,632line 0: expected liquidate 3 -446365 3295908 got 0 0stderr
4Jun 30, 2026 15:581,32425,160,69016,183,0001,036,0002,117,632stderr
5Jun 30, 2026 15:581,33125,276,25516,221,0001,094,0002,117,632stderr
6Jun 30, 2026 15:581,36125,651,13316,612,0001,092,0002,117,632stderr
7Jun 30, 2026 15:581,39226,034,24217,039,0001,065,0002,117,632stderr
8Jun 30, 2026 15:581,40826,160,03517,244,0001,064,0002,117,632stderr
9Jun 30, 2026 15:581,40926,270,31517,231,0001,090,0002,117,632stderr
10Jun 30, 2026 15:581,45526,788,26417,879,0001,046,0002,117,632stderr
11Jun 30, 2026 15:581,46926,979,59018,052,0001,056,0002,117,632stderr
12Jun 30, 2026 15:581,47927,172,84518,185,0001,051,0002,117,632stderr