123. Best Time to Buy and Sell Stock III
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 at most two transactions.
Note:
You may not engage in multiple transactions at the same time (ie, you must sell the stock before you buy again).
Solution:
It is similar to other buy/sell problems. just do DP and define an array of states to track the current maximum profits at different stages. For example, in the below code
- states[][0]: one buy
- states[][1]: one buy, one sell
- states[][2]: two buys, one sell
- states[][3]: two buy, two sells
The states transistions occurs when buy/sell operations are executed. For example, state[][0] can move to state[][1] via one sell operation.
Code:
class Solution {
public:
int maxProfit(vector<int>& prices) {
int states[2][4] = {INT_MIN, 0, INT_MIN, 0}; // [][0]: one buy, [][1]: one buy one sell, [][2]: 2 buys 1 sell, [][3], 2 buys 2 sells
int len = prices.size(), i, cur = 0, next =1;
for(i=0; i<len; ++i)
{
states[next][0] = max(states[cur][0], -prices[i]);
states[next][1] = max(states[cur][1], states[cur][0]+prices[i]);
states[next][2] = max(states[cur][2], states[cur][1]-prices[i]);
states[next][3] = max(states[cur][3], states[cur][2]+prices[i]);
swap(next, cur);
}
return max(states[cur][1], states[cur][3]);
}
};