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 Tunkovic66.74CustomSolution Broken
Run Statistics
#DateScoreWall TimeCPU UserCPU SystemMemoryError
1Sep 4, 2026 18:240162,879,575137,443,00015,273,00016,801,792line 49: expected liquidate 39 6406 2894184 got liquidate 25 -2984891 9907094stderr
2Sep 4, 2026 18:240160,776,504137,954,00012,810,00012,607,488line 17: expected liquidate 12 -824500 20824930 got liquidate 13 -1242296 0stderr
3Sep 4, 2026 18:240156,194,774131,304,00014,728,00016,801,792line 11: expected liquidate 4 -332520 17421114 got liquidate 8 -190550 1670076stderr
4Aug 21, 2026 20:503,19052,173,00539,229,0002,253,0002,121,728stderr
5Aug 21, 2026 20:503,29252,752,58240,713,0002,091,0002,121,728stderr
6Aug 21, 2026 20:503,33653,940,31841,128,0002,242,0002,121,728stderr
7Aug 21, 2026 20:503,38154,577,09241,880,0002,079,0002,121,728stderr
8Aug 21, 2026 20:503,41254,248,44942,296,0002,069,0002,121,728stderr
9Aug 21, 2026 20:503,46355,617,52242,938,0002,082,0002,121,728stderr
10Aug 21, 2026 20:503,48155,215,92343,184,0002,077,0002,121,728stderr
11Aug 21, 2026 20:503,57357,089,19844,327,0002,125,0002,121,728stderr
12Aug 21, 2026 20:503,61757,696,29444,927,0002,103,0002,121,728stderr