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 Tunkovic58.90CustomSolution Broken
Run Statistics
#DateScoreWall TimeCPU UserCPU SystemMemoryError
1Sep 9, 2026 11:51011,008,88402,432,0002,117,632line 3: expected liquidate 2 -228956 10502450 got liquidate 2 0 10731406stderr
2Sep 9, 2026 11:51010,959,93902,461,0002,117,632line 5: expected liquidate 19 -12635 15029816 got liquidate 4 0 12125652stderr
3Sep 9, 2026 11:51010,613,36202,155,0002,117,632line 0: expected liquidate 3 111890 13047035 got 0 0stderr
4Sep 8, 2026 19:5178318,638,6499,134,0001,054,0002,117,632stderr
5Sep 8, 2026 19:5179418,832,4629,285,0001,049,0002,117,632stderr
6Sep 8, 2026 19:5181319,617,5659,517,0001,063,0002,117,632stderr
7Sep 8, 2026 19:5181732,544,6799,533,0001,100,0002,117,632stderr
8Sep 8, 2026 19:5183426,407,5909,738,0001,107,0002,117,632stderr
9Sep 8, 2026 19:5186619,745,31910,192,0001,071,0002,117,632stderr
10Sep 8, 2026 19:5193328,987,38010,962,0001,167,0002,117,632stderr
11Sep 8, 2026 19:5196930,211,49211,484,0001,121,0002,117,632stderr
12Sep 8, 2026 19:5198530,262,87311,694,0001,111,0002,117,632stderr