Best Time to Buy and Sell Stock IV - Hard - L - Star

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Question

  • https://leetcode.com/problems/best-time-to-buy-and-sell-stock-iv/

You are given an integer array prices where prices[i] is the price of a given stock on the ith day, and an integer k.

Find the maximum profit you can achieve. You may complete at most k transactions.

Note: You may not engage in multiple transactions simultaneously (i.e., you must sell the stock before you buy again).

Approach

  • Variable iteration
  • https://medium.com/algorithms-and-leetcode/best-time-to-buy-sell-stocks-on-leetcode-the-ultimate-guide-ce420259b323

Solution

class Solution {
public:
    int maxProfit(int k, vector<int>& prices) {
        int n = prices.size();
        if (n<2 || k<1) {
            return 0;
        }
        if (k>n/2) {
            int profit = 0;
            for(int i=1; i<n; i++) {
                profit += max(0, prices[i] - prices[i-1]);
            }
            return profit;
        }
        vector<int> buy(k, INT_MIN);
        vector<int> sell(k, 0);
        for(int i=0; i<n; i++) {
            buy[0] = max(buy[0], -prices[i]);
            sell[0] = max(sell[0], buy[0]+prices[i]);
            for(int j=1; j<k; j++) {
                buy[j] = max(buy[j], sell[j-1]-prices[i]);
                sell[j] = max(sell[j], buy[j]+prices[i]);
            }
        }
        return sell[k-1];
    }
};