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 13:36Tomislav Tunkovic71.44CustomSolution Broken
Run Statistics
#DateScoreWall TimeCPU UserCPU SystemMemoryError
1Sep 4, 2026 14:01010,365,79302,321,0002,117,632line 2: expected liquidate 0 -151902 14445240 got liquidate 0 0 14293338stderr
2Sep 4, 2026 14:01010,365,88002,270,0002,117,632line 1: expected liquidate 6 -236320 5316080 got liquidate 6 0 5079760stderr
3Sep 4, 2026 14:0108,725,000720,000016,384No answer to stdout. Died or killed?
4Aug 29, 2026 14:281,01921,493,66412,130,0001,128,0002,117,632stderr
5Aug 29, 2026 14:281,02021,500,28412,138,0001,124,0002,117,632stderr
6Aug 29, 2026 14:281,04021,830,48312,421,0001,100,0002,117,632stderr
7Aug 29, 2026 14:281,04221,756,82512,497,0001,050,0002,117,632stderr
8Aug 29, 2026 14:281,05522,057,56712,639,0001,084,0002,117,632stderr
9Aug 29, 2026 14:281,10022,436,59213,243,0001,063,0002,117,632stderr
10Aug 29, 2026 14:281,11422,821,11713,354,0001,136,0002,117,632stderr
11Aug 29, 2026 14:281,16923,434,72914,111,0001,091,0002,117,632stderr
12Aug 29, 2026 14:281,20523,843,66514,540,0001,126,0002,117,632stderr