Future Stock Prices

Given an unordered list of future stock prices, what is the maximum amount of profit that you could generate from a starting amount of $1,000.00 Rules: You can trade fractional shares (e.g. if there were shares for $400.00, you could buy/sell 2.5 of them for $1,000.00) All trades occur instantaneously and do not incur any transaction costs. Shares may only be bought/sold on a date that you have a known price. Short selling is not allowed. You do not need to have a position at all times (at any time, if you cannot identify a profitable trade, you do not have to trade). Round final answer to nearest dollar. Do not assume input tuple will be sorted in any manner. Future prices will be given as a list in the following format: [Stock, Date, Price]

Constraints

N/A

Example 1

Input:

prices = ["CSCO,10/18/2024,41.89", "AMZN,10/10/2024,113.67", "AMZN,10/18/2024,120.5", "CSCO,10/10/2024,43.12"]

Output:

60

Explanation: Buy 8.797 AMZN @ $113.67 on 10/10/2024 and sell @ $120.5 on 10/18/2024. Profit = $60

Example 2

Input:

prices = ["IBM,12/01/2023,132.05", "IBM,12/18/2023,134.07", "AAPL,12/01/2023,187.19", "AAPL,12/04/2023,164.33", "AAPL,12/20/2023,180.94", "AAPL,12/21/2023,179.65", "GOOG,12/01/2023,116.41", "GOOG,12/07/2023,111.36", "GOOG,12/19/2023,112.19"]

Output:

127

Explanation: Buy 7.573 IBM @ $132.05 on 12/01/2023 and sell @ $135.19 on 12/3/2023. Buy 6.230 AAPL on 12/4/2023 @ $164.33 and sell on 12/20/2023 @ $180.94. Profit = $127

Example 3

Input:

prices = ["INTC, 12/01/2023, 30.00", "INTC, 12/05/2023, 35.00", "INTC, 12/10/2023, 33.00", "AAPL, 12/02/2023, 150.00", "AAPL, 12/06/2023, 155.00", "AAPL, 12/11/2023, 160.00", "INTC, 12/15/2023, 36.00" "INTC, 09/10/2024, 36.26", "INTC, 12/04/2023, 33.39", "AAPL, 12/22/2023, 197.61", "AAPL, 07/20/2025, 181.71", "INTC, 10/27/2024, 35.66", "AAPL, 01/30/2025, 178.68", "AAPL, 12/21/2024, 176.22", "AAPL, 05/14/2024, 182.66", "INTC, 08/15/2024, 35.23", "AAPL, 02/20/2025, 196.47", "INTC, 03/29/2025, 32.13", "INTC, 06/28/2025, 32.96", "INTC, 07/11/2025, 35.63"]

Output:

343

Explanation: