Best Time to Buy and Sell Stock II
Description
Say you have an array for which the ith element is the price of a given stock on day i.
Design an algorithm to find the maximum profit. You may complete as many transactions as you like (i.e., buy one and sell one share of the stock multiple times).
Note: You may not engage in multiple transactions at the same time (i.e., you must sell the stock before you buy again).
Example 1:
Input: [7,1,5,3,6,4]
Output: 7
Explanation: Buy on day 2 (price = 1) and sell on day 3 (price = 5), profit = 5-1 = 4.
Then buy on day 4 (price = 3) and sell on day 5 (price = 6), profit = 6-3 = 3.
Example 2:
Input: [1,2,3,4,5]
Output: 4
Explanation: Buy on day 1 (price = 1) and sell on day 5 (price = 5), profit = 5-1 = 4.
Note that you cannot buy on day 1, buy on day 2 and sell them later, as you are
engaging multiple transactions at the same time. You must sell before buying again.
Example 3:
Input: [7,6,4,3,1]
Output: 0
Explanation: In this case, no transaction is done, i.e. max profit = 0.
Solution
股票的买卖策略为,遍历整个股票交易日价格列表,所以上涨交易日都买卖并且赚取差价,所有下跌交易日都不买卖,不会亏钱。
便于理解,等价于每天都买卖,把可能跨越多天的买卖都化解为相邻两天的买卖。
class Solution {
public int maxProfit(int[] prices) {
int maxProfit = 0;
for (int i = 1; i < prices.length; i++) {
if (prices[i] > prices[i-1]) {
maxProfit += prices[i] - prices[i-1];
}
}
return maxProfit;
}
}