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 20:55Tomislav Tunkovic18.28CustomSolution Broken
Run Statistics
#DateScoreWall TimeCPU UserCPU SystemMemoryError
1Sep 4, 2026 20:59010,652,78702,581,0002,117,632line 1: expected liquidate 2 -321640 7326320 got liquidate 2 0 7004680stderr
2Sep 4, 2026 20:59012,273,37502,460,0002,117,632line 4: expected liquidate 1 46010 4802160 got liquidate 1 0 4848170stderr
3Sep 4, 2026 20:59010,722,34402,639,0002,117,632line 2: expected liquidate 4 -3744 2021760 got liquidate 4 0 2018016stderr
4Sep 2, 2026 07:2386519,491,02010,002,0001,244,0002,117,632stderr
5Sep 2, 2026 07:2386919,544,22710,074,0001,225,0002,117,632stderr
6Sep 2, 2026 07:2387819,718,31210,380,0001,038,0002,117,632stderr
7Sep 2, 2026 07:2393020,883,75411,067,0001,035,0002,117,632stderr
8Sep 2, 2026 07:2395620,998,20611,280,0001,160,0002,117,632stderr
9Sep 2, 2026 07:2396920,934,03611,492,0001,107,0002,117,632stderr
10Sep 2, 2026 07:2399221,222,83811,805,0001,091,0002,117,632stderr
11Sep 2, 2026 07:231,00221,335,29011,953,0001,079,0002,117,632stderr
12Sep 2, 2026 07:231,00821,374,90612,026,0001,078,0002,117,632stderr