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
Nov 2, 2026 14:14Andrew Epstein10.00CustomSolution Broken
Run Statistics
#DateScoreWall TimeCPU UserCPU SystemMemoryError
1Nov 2, 2026 14:17035,013,406,89434,754,093,000167,770,0005,083,136line 136685: expected 100000000030877731 10000679999 got EOF
2Oct 17, 2026 01:091,51728,863,49218,670,0001,053,00073,728
3Oct 17, 2026 01:091,51928,955,88918,678,0001,069,00077,824
4Oct 17, 2026 01:091,55430,882,59919,138,0001,066,00077,824
5Oct 17, 2026 01:091,56029,400,10319,187,0001,096,00081,920
6Oct 17, 2026 01:091,60930,033,73519,864,0001,056,00086,016
7Oct 17, 2026 01:091,62730,273,99120,083,0001,073,00086,016
8Oct 17, 2026 01:091,67532,331,42520,732,0001,051,00081,920
9Oct 17, 2026 01:091,73431,705,00721,473,0001,074,00081,920
10Oct 17, 2026 01:091,90534,030,80923,734,0001,035,00090,112
11Nov 2, 2026 14:172,654,25734,577,243,37334,342,971,000162,370,0005,070,848
12Nov 2, 2026 14:172,679,08134,925,500,93434,653,271,000174,783,0005,074,944