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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#DateScoreWall TimeCPU UserCPU SystemMemoryError
1Oct 7, 2026 01:44017,444,8277,067,00002,117,632line 0: expected liquidate 1140 115298 11602800 got sz7801721 L750000 a20100 p670412 t59487 maxacc20089 maxins111 maxprun318 firstp0 firstt54 F:p 0 12132|p 1 5052|a 982696|a 1073144|a 919700|a 1023710|a 956605|a 1104907|a 983984|p 2 15958|a 642006|a 10...
2Oct 7, 2026 01:44017,366,1486,988,00002,117,632line 0: expected liquidate 2366 -359344 14620800 got sz7763646 L750000 a20107 p673089 t56803 maxacc20096 maxins106 maxprun303 firstp1 firstt57 F:a 1094513|p 0 16692|p 1 4886|a 1070996|a 1006260|a 1084579|a 896822|p 2 7148|a 799445|a 937929|p 3 14380|a ...
3Oct 7, 2026 01:44017,305,5776,946,00002,117,632line 0: expected liquidate 8281 103901 10477440 got sz7746734 L750000 a20112 p671127 t58760 maxacc20102 maxins104 maxprun318 firstp3 firstt89 F:a 1131072|a 1140998|a 1117527|p 0 10108|p 1 17521|a 811441|a 1168908|p 2 8984|a 863829|p 3 4771|a 910240|a 9...