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
Oct 25, 2026 16:12Andrew Epstein13.26CustomSolution Broken
Run Statistics
#DateScoreWall TimeCPU UserCPU SystemMemoryError
1Oct 25, 2026 16:19035,118,066,96434,851,697,000172,378,0005,091,328line 136463: expected 100000000030381859 10000679999 got EOF
2Oct 16, 2026 21:291,49728,524,16018,422,0001,051,00069,632
3Oct 16, 2026 21:291,53429,007,08418,882,0001,063,00086,016
4Oct 16, 2026 21:291,55529,249,77219,133,0001,090,00086,016
5Oct 16, 2026 21:291,55929,326,04019,201,0001,078,00086,016
6Oct 16, 2026 21:291,56129,317,94019,209,0001,087,00081,920
7Oct 16, 2026 21:291,71131,301,07821,174,0001,072,00098,304
8Oct 16, 2026 21:291,76932,585,72921,937,0001,063,00086,016
9Oct 16, 2026 21:291,79232,366,02522,234,0001,074,00094,208
10Oct 16, 2026 21:291,80332,606,29222,387,0001,064,00098,304
11Oct 25, 2026 16:192,662,03934,696,345,06434,439,227,000167,285,0005,099,520
12Oct 25, 2026 16:192,690,52435,066,707,60334,802,771,000174,052,0005,070,848