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 11:54Tomislav Tunkovic39.50CustomSolution Broken
Run Statistics
#DateScoreWall TimeCPU UserCPU SystemMemoryError
1Sep 9, 2026 11:56011,118,98802,596,0002,121,728line 2: expected liquidate 3 -9880 1044745 got liquidate 3 0 1054625stderr
2Sep 9, 2026 11:56011,191,9411,450,0001,425,0002,121,728line 5: expected liquidate 9 -6912 841536 got liquidate 9 0 848448stderr
3Sep 9, 2026 11:56011,178,66702,861,0002,121,728line 2: expected liquidate 0 -270180 25809179 got liquidate 0 0 21087312stderr
4Sep 7, 2026 13:3590621,056,81210,617,0001,170,0002,121,728stderr
5Sep 7, 2026 13:3590720,219,16010,562,0001,235,0002,121,728stderr
6Sep 7, 2026 13:3590820,195,36610,685,0001,119,0002,121,728stderr
7Sep 7, 2026 13:3592120,365,28110,738,0001,246,0002,121,728stderr
8Sep 7, 2026 13:3592420,373,30210,863,0001,154,0002,121,728stderr
9Sep 7, 2026 13:3594720,524,25911,153,0001,161,0002,121,728stderr
10Sep 7, 2026 13:3594820,716,02511,084,0001,243,0002,121,728stderr
11Sep 7, 2026 13:3595720,909,22611,294,0001,154,0002,121,728stderr
12Sep 7, 2026 13:351,02021,670,06412,027,0001,243,0002,121,728stderr