You are given an array prices where prices[i] is the price of a given stock on the ith day.
You want to maximize your profit by choosing a single day to buy one stock and choosing a different day in the future to sell that stock.
Return the maximum profit you can achieve from this transaction. If you cannot achieve any profit, return 0.
Example 1:
Input: prices = [7,1,5,3,6,4]
Output: 5
Explanation: Buy on day 2 (price = 1) and sell on day 5 (price = 6), profit = 6-1 = 5.
Note that buying on day 2 and selling on day 1 is not allowed because you must buy before you sell.
Example 2:
Input: prices = [7,6,4,3,1]
Output: 0
Explanation: In this case, no transactions are done and the max profit = 0.
Python Solution
The Objective of the code is to find the local min and search for local maximum sliding window
class Solution:
def maxProfit(self, prices: List[int]) -> int:
l,r = 0,1
maxP = 0
while r < len(prices):
if prices[l] < prices[r]:
profit = prices[r] - prices[l]
maxP = max(maxP, profit)
else:
l = r
r += 1
return maxP