Buy and Sell Stock
Find the best time to buy and sell stock to achieve maximum profit.
You are given an array prices
where prices[i]
is the price of a given stock on the i
th 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
.
class Solution:
def maxProfit(self, prices: List[int]) -> int:
min_price = float('inf')
max_profit = 0
for i in range(len(prices)):
if prices[i] < min_price:
min_price = prices[i]
elif prices[i] - min_price > max_profit:
max_profit = prices[i] - min_price
return max_profit