Best Time to Buy and Sell Stock II Problem Statement

Given the stock prices for a certain number of days, represented as an array, determine the maximum profit you can achieve. You may perform as many transactions as you like, but you must sell the stock before you buy again.

Input:

The input starts with an integer 't', the number of test cases that follow.
For each test case:
The first line contains an integer 'N' indicating the number of days.
The second line contains 'N' space-separated integers, where each integer denotes the price of the stock on that respective day.

Output:

For each test case, output the maximum profit possible on a new line.

Example:

Input:

t = 2
N = 6
prices = 7 1 5 3 6 4
N = 5
prices = 1 2 3 4 5

Output:

7
4

Explanation:

For the first test case, buying on day 2 and selling on day 3, then buying on day 4 and selling on day 5 yields a maximum profit of 7. For the second test case, buying on day 1 and selling on day 5 yields a maximum profit of 4.

Constraints:

1 ≤ t ≤ 10^2

0 ≤ N ≤ 10^5

Time Limit: 1 sec

Note:

Implement the function but do not write explicit printing logic, as it is handled separately.

Question

Best Time to Buy and Sell Stock II Problem Statement

Given the stock prices for a certain number of days, represented as an array, determine the maximum profit you can achieve. You may perform as many transactions as you like, but you must sell the stock before you buy again.

Input:

The input starts with an integer 't', the number of test cases that follow.
For each test case:
The first line contains an integer 'N' indicating the number of days.
The second line contains 'N' space-separated integers, where each integer denotes the price of the stock on that respective day.

Output:

For each test case, output the maximum profit possible on a new line.

Example:

Input:

t = 2
N = 6
prices = 7 1 5 3 6 4
N = 5
prices = 1 2 3 4 5

Output:

7
4

Explanation:

For the first test case, buying on day 2 and selling on day 3, then buying on day 4 and selling on day 5 yields a maximum profit of 7. For the second test case, buying on day 1 and selling on day 5 yields a maximum profit of 4.

Constraints:

1 ≤ t ≤ 10^2
0 ≤ N ≤ 10^5
Time Limit: 1 sec

Note:

Implement the function but do not write explicit printing logic, as it is handled separately.

Accepted Answer

The problem involves finding the maximum profit that can be achieved by buying and selling stocks on different days.

Iterate through the array of stock prices and find the local minima and maxima to calculate profit
Keep track of the total profit by adding the differences between consecutive maxima and minima
You can perform multiple transactions, so buy at each local minima and sell at each local maxima
Example: For prices = [7, 1, 5, 3, 6, 4], buy at 1, sell at 5, buy at 3, sell at 6 for a total profit of 7