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 18:270369,768,010358,703,0002,053,00020,480line 0: expected liquidate 2724 59510 12759820 got 0:74244 1:74487 2:76417 3:79089 4:74911 5:75283 6:72081 7:75446
2Oct 7, 2026 18:270334,521,406323,424,0002,025,00020,480line 0: expected liquidate 4817 21488 9196420 got 0:66339 1:66884 2:69156 3:71301 4:67486 5:67705 6:65430 7:67283
3Oct 7, 2026 18:270263,495,468252,745,0001,004,00020,480line 0: expected liquidate 17404 60670 6174940 got 0:52028 1:52335 2:53727 3:55688 4:52571 5:52661 6:51461 7:52187