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 02:35Tomislav Tunkovic10.00CustomSolution Broken
Run Statistics
#DateScoreWall TimeCPU UserCPU SystemMemoryError
1Sep 5, 2026 04:07012,074,09502,174,0002,117,632line 3: expected liquidate 14 -107520 6129088 got liquidate 14 0 6236608stderr
2Sep 5, 2026 04:07010,159,56501,977,0002,117,632line 2: expected liquidate 3 -181488 7228476 got liquidate 3 0 7409964stderr
3Sep 5, 2026 04:0709,139,489985,00002,117,632line 5: expected liquidate 8 -13854 16476251 got liquidate 5 -89674 5611776stderr
4Aug 19, 2026 14:371,08522,469,07612,988,0001,124,0002,117,632stderr
5Aug 19, 2026 14:371,14124,652,29113,782,0001,060,0002,117,632stderr
6Aug 19, 2026 14:371,14923,200,93313,859,0001,090,0002,117,632stderr
7Aug 19, 2026 14:371,16624,005,78614,067,0001,100,0002,117,632stderr
8Aug 19, 2026 14:371,18123,662,07614,254,0001,104,0002,117,632stderr
9Aug 19, 2026 14:371,22624,232,55014,898,0001,040,0002,117,632stderr
10Aug 19, 2026 14:371,27824,933,39015,515,0001,101,0002,117,632stderr
11Aug 19, 2026 14:371,29325,030,94315,710,0001,101,0002,117,632stderr
12Aug 19, 2026 14:371,37726,210,61216,861,0001,051,0002,117,632stderr