PYTHON PROBLEM 262 · Company Medium

Maximize one stock transaction: Falling market

Return zero when no later selling price exceeds an earlier buying price.

Move boundaries while preserving a window or two-pointer invariantcompany screenarraygreedy

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This scenario tests maximize one stock transaction. It belongs to the Top Company Arrays, Strings, and Sliding Windows roadmap and uses the move boundaries while preserving a window or two-pointer invariant pattern.

Company-screen array and string patterns: two pointers, matrices, prefix sums, and sliding windows.

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