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 9, 2026 11:47Tomislav Tunkovic69.04CustomSolution Broken
Run Statistics
#DateScoreWall TimeCPU UserCPU SystemMemoryError
1Sep 9, 2026 11:51010,919,82402,573,0002,121,728line 3: expected liquidate 2 -35856 1163826 got liquidate 2 0 1199682stderr
2Sep 9, 2026 11:51011,057,20302,799,0002,121,728line 3: expected liquidate 3 18559 1940385 got liquidate 3 0 1921826stderr
3Sep 9, 2026 11:51011,110,8911,399,0001,396,0002,121,728line 1: expected liquidate 3 -72668 3133562 got liquidate 3 0 3206230stderr
4Sep 7, 2026 10:3285719,541,9759,980,0001,168,0002,121,728stderr
5Sep 7, 2026 10:3290420,178,93010,576,0001,186,0002,121,728stderr
6Sep 7, 2026 10:3292520,220,91510,941,0001,094,0002,121,728stderr
7Sep 7, 2026 10:3292720,355,86610,857,0001,196,0002,121,728stderr
8Sep 7, 2026 10:3295920,885,31711,296,0001,182,0002,121,728stderr
9Sep 7, 2026 10:3297721,028,47811,486,0001,222,0002,121,728stderr
10Sep 7, 2026 10:3299521,330,54111,729,0001,218,0002,121,728stderr
11Sep 7, 2026 10:321,00421,349,91111,905,0001,150,0002,121,728stderr
12Sep 7, 2026 10:321,08522,512,56212,935,0001,181,0002,121,728stderr