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 5, 2026 00:40Tomislav Tunkovic10.00CustomSolution Broken
Run Statistics
#DateScoreWall TimeCPU UserCPU SystemMemoryError
1Sep 5, 2026 02:20011,608,3831,062,0002,297,0002,138,112line 10: expected liquidate 22 -255248 13473792 got liquidate 22 0 13218544stderr
2Sep 5, 2026 02:20011,302,37403,126,0002,183,168line 0: expected liquidate 0 16968 5076769 got 251476 0stderr
3Sep 5, 2026 02:2009,937,92901,766,00036,864No answer to stdout. Died or killed?
4Sep 4, 2026 10:2592020,220,57710,695,0001,271,0002,134,016stderr
5Sep 4, 2026 10:2593820,498,55210,908,0001,298,0002,187,264stderr
6Sep 4, 2026 10:2596820,714,13711,318,0001,278,0002,134,016stderr
7Sep 4, 2026 10:2597720,861,68511,470,0001,238,0002,134,016stderr
8Sep 4, 2026 10:2598521,176,33611,602,0001,215,0002,134,016stderr
9Sep 4, 2026 10:251,00121,351,42611,716,0001,308,0002,134,016stderr
10Sep 4, 2026 10:251,03622,188,12812,166,0001,312,0002,187,264stderr
11Sep 4, 2026 10:251,06122,493,07312,590,0001,207,0002,138,112stderr
12Sep 4, 2026 10:251,06322,081,15212,599,0001,232,0002,187,264stderr