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 20:41Tomislav Tunkovic32.39CustomSolution Broken
Run Statistics
#DateScoreWall TimeCPU UserCPU SystemMemoryError
1Sep 4, 2026 20:45010,494,92002,335,0002,117,632line 5: expected liquidate 7 -194955 6701697 got liquidate 7 0 6506742stderr
2Sep 4, 2026 20:45010,603,61302,460,0002,117,632line 3: expected liquidate 8 -205821 14939386 got liquidate 8 0 14733565stderr
3Sep 4, 2026 20:45010,791,53102,454,0002,117,632line 1: expected liquidate 3 105500 10838528 got liquidate 3 0 10274856stderr
4Sep 2, 2026 17:0178318,509,6458,876,0001,313,0002,117,632stderr
5Sep 2, 2026 17:0184219,252,6719,908,0001,039,0002,117,632stderr
6Sep 2, 2026 17:0185619,460,4629,964,0001,165,0002,117,632stderr
7Sep 2, 2026 17:0187319,708,46410,324,0001,037,0002,117,632stderr
8Sep 2, 2026 17:0188319,842,09710,423,0001,067,0002,117,632stderr
9Sep 2, 2026 17:0189419,856,87210,359,0001,267,0002,117,632stderr
10Sep 2, 2026 17:0191720,154,76910,860,0001,067,0002,117,632stderr
11Sep 2, 2026 17:0197121,552,50311,565,0001,068,0002,117,632stderr
12Sep 2, 2026 17:011,01621,467,12112,158,0001,057,0002,117,632stderr