Q：

Say you have an array for which the ith element is the price of a given stock on day i. 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: 5max. 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: 0In this case, no transaction is done, i.e. max profit = 0.

A：

找到最小值，然后找到之后出现的最大值，differ就是max_profit。

https://leetcode.com/articles/best-time-buy-and-sell-stock/

需要设置两个量：1.用来存储已出现过的min 2.如果下一个值min大，那么计算差值，并且储存。one pass结束时，min为谷底值，max_profit = 顶点值-谷底值。

public class Solution {
    public int maxProfit(int prices[]) {
        int minprice = Integer.MAX_VALUE;
        int maxprofit = 0;
        for (int i = 0; i < prices.length; i++) {
            if (prices[i] < minprice)
                minprice = prices[i];
            else if (prices[i] - minprice > maxprofit)
                maxprofit = prices[i] - minprice;
        }
        return maxprofit;
    }
}