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 18:11Tomislav Tunkovic66.76CustomSolution Broken
Run Statistics
#DateScoreWall TimeCPU UserCPU SystemMemoryError
1Sep 4, 2026 18:230226,678,674179,029,00037,561,00018,898,944line 69: expected liquidate 12 62847 7843377 got liquidate 7 -2602743 10114603stderr
2Sep 4, 2026 18:230202,723,030161,863,00030,857,00016,801,792line 150: expected liquidate 27 786 79440 got liquidate 24 -164624 1438893stderr
3Sep 4, 2026 18:230220,820,814177,789,00032,980,00016,801,792line 4: expected liquidate 0 -107811 6603774 got liquidate 3 -38998 582036stderr
4Aug 21, 2026 20:434,16571,764,24042,868,00011,285,0002,121,728stderr
5Aug 21, 2026 20:434,20765,881,06443,751,00010,951,0002,121,728stderr
6Aug 21, 2026 20:434,37967,606,97445,414,00011,520,0002,121,728stderr
7Aug 21, 2026 20:434,40868,037,29645,849,00011,455,0002,121,728stderr
8Aug 21, 2026 20:434,41867,481,34946,256,00011,190,0002,121,728stderr
9Aug 21, 2026 20:434,46267,959,70146,805,00011,207,0002,121,728stderr
10Aug 21, 2026 20:434,47568,921,25147,043,00011,142,0002,121,728stderr
11Aug 21, 2026 20:434,53168,885,01647,691,00011,213,0002,121,728stderr
12Aug 21, 2026 20:434,59969,872,01748,603,00011,184,0002,121,728stderr