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 11:55Tomislav Tunkovic21.67CustomSolution Broken
Run Statistics
#DateScoreWall TimeCPU UserCPU SystemMemoryError
1Sep 9, 2026 11:56010,596,65202,278,0002,117,632line 2: expected liquidate 4 -511790 10915340 got liquidate 4 0 11427130stderr
2Sep 9, 2026 11:56011,066,30202,478,0002,117,632line 0: expected liquidate 6 -1380097 3932453 got liquidate 6 -1394925 1944358stderr
3Sep 9, 2026 11:56010,640,49602,221,0002,117,632line 6: expected liquidate 7 -129471 3257169 got liquidate 7 0 3127698stderr
4Sep 8, 2026 19:0480818,926,9949,445,0001,066,0002,117,632stderr
5Sep 8, 2026 19:0482927,505,5179,654,0001,129,0002,117,632stderr
6Sep 8, 2026 19:0482919,396,6089,716,0001,068,0002,117,632stderr
7Sep 8, 2026 19:0484119,429,7139,795,0001,141,0002,117,632stderr
8Sep 8, 2026 19:0485520,298,5239,987,0001,134,0002,117,632stderr
9Sep 8, 2026 19:0486930,573,00910,093,0001,208,0002,117,632stderr
10Sep 8, 2026 19:0490020,158,98910,568,0001,138,0002,117,632stderr
11Sep 8, 2026 19:0491220,332,44410,790,0001,070,0002,117,632stderr
12Sep 8, 2026 19:041,02422,261,90712,148,0001,170,0002,117,632stderr