Say you have an array for which theithelement is the price of a given stock on dayi.

If you were only permitted to complete at most one transaction (ie, buy one and sell one share of the stock), design an algorithm to find the maximum profit.

Example 1:

Input: [7, 1, 5, 3, 6, 4]
Output: 5

max. difference = 6-1 = 5 (not 7-1 = 6, as selling price needs to be larger than buying price)

Example 2:

Input: [7, 6, 4, 3, 1]
Output: 0

In this case, no transaction is done, i.e. max profit = 0.

tag: stock

class Solution {
    public int maxProfit(int[] prices) {
        int n = prices.length;

        int minPrice = Integer.MAX_VALUE;
        int ans = 0;
        for (int i = 0; i < n; i++){
            if (prices[i] < minPrice){
                minPrice = prices[i];
            }
            else if (prices[i] - minPrice > ans){
                ans = prices[i] - minPrice;
            }
        }

        return ans;
    }
}