Best Time to Buy and Sell Stock
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.
def maxProfit(prices):
max_profit, min_price = 0, float('inf')
for price in prices:
min_price = min(min_price, price)
profit = price - min_price
max_profit = max(max_profit, profit)
return max_profit
Posted by Jamie Meyer a month ago