When is the WoW Forever auction house cheapest during the day?

Across PvP Horde EU, prices run cheapest around 19:00 UTC (20:00 CET), 5.8% under the daily average, and dearest around 04:00 UTC (05:00 CET), 14.3% over. The pattern is read from the hourly price of the market's largest positions over the last few weeks, each hour against the day around it.

How is the hour-of-day pattern worked out?

Every hourly price is divided by the same item’s average over the 24 hours around it, so a price drifting up or down over the month does not make one end of the day look dear, and the 24 hours are then centred so an average hour reads 1.000. The best buy window is the cheapest run of three hours and the best sell window the dearest. Hours are UTC, with the hour on the wall in the zone most of the market’s players keep beside them.

How much history does the pattern need?

Each hour of the day needs a few days of scans behind it before its figure means anything. The confidence line reads the thinnest hour: settled from ten days of scans, provisional from three, too early under that, and no pattern at all while fewer than half the hours have been scanned. Scanning PvP Horde EU through the night fills the gaps.

Best hours to buy and sell

Pick a market and an item. Every hour of the day shows its typical price, lowest buyout and listings, and the page names the cheapest hours to buy, the dearest to sell, and what the gap is worth after the 5 percent cut.

On PvP Horde EU, Quillshooter is cheapest from 15:00 to 18:00 UTC (16:00 to 19:00 CET) and dearest from 08:00 to 11:00 UTC (09:00 to 12:00 CET). Buying in the cheap hours and selling in the dear ones returns about 29% after the 5 percent cut.

Current market: PvP Horde EU. This browser opens every tool here until you pick another. Address for this market: ahledger.com/timing?market=forever/pvp/horde/eu

1MarketEach house keeps its own hours.2WindowDays of scans the hours are averaged over.3ItemKept while you switch market or window; type another below.

Item

Best hours to buy

15:00 to 18:00 UTC

16:00 to 19:00 CET · index 0.865 · typical 14g 67s

Best hours to sell

08:00 to 11:00 UTC

09:00 to 12:00 CET · index 1.172 · typical 18g 24s

Spread after the 5% cut

+29%

buy at the cheap hours' lowest buyout, sell at the dear hours' typical price

Confidence

Too early

Too early to trust: the thinnest hour has 1 day of scans behind it over the last 28 days. Read the windows as a hint, not a rule.

Quillshooterby hour · PvP Horde EU

Hour (UTC)	CET	Typical	Lowest	Listings	Index	Days
00:00	01:00	15g 49s	14g 66s	4	0.947	3
01:00	02:00	18g 99s	17g 49s	5	1.019	2
02:00	03:00	20g 95s	19g 99s	6	1.123	2
03:00	04:00	16g 86s	14g 99s	9	0.986	1
04:00	05:00	25g	25g	1	1.190	1
05:00	06:00	15g 59s	14g 50s	7	0.957	1
06:00	07:00	15g 44s	14g 50s	8	0.971	1
07:00	08:00	20g 12s	19g 50s	5	1.038	2
08:00	09:00	18g 26s	16g 72s	4	1.190	3
09:00	10:00	18g 28s	18g 9s	3	1.181	3
10:00	11:00	18g 19s	17g 72s	3	1.146	3
11:00	12:00	19g 19s	18g 94s	5	1.006	2
12:00	13:00	18g 94s	16g 94s	6	1.004	2
13:00	14:00	19g 49s	19g	6	1.036	2
14:00	15:00	16g 54s	14g 96s	3	0.933	3
15:00	16:00	16g 29s	15g 96s	4	0.926	3
16:00	17:00	15g 62s	12g 30s	4	0.878	3
17:00	18:00	12g 9s	12g 9s	1	0.790	3
18:00	19:00	14g 40s	13g 39s	3	0.991	2
19:00	20:00	20g 3s	16g 99s	6	0.971	1
20:00	21:00	18g 70s	16g 90s	9	0.926	1
21:00	22:00	16g 39s	13g 9s	6	0.877	2
22:00	23:00	12g 96s	9g 78s	1	0.860	2
23:00	00:00	17g 50s	16g 96s	3	1.053	3

Under 1.000 is a cheap hour to buy; over 1.000 a good hour to sell. Days counts how many days that hour was scanned in the window. The same figures as JSON: /v1/timing/forever.pvp.horde.eu/10567 on the API.

The whole market by hour · PvP Horde EU

Hour (UTC)	CET	Price index	Listings index	Days
00:00	01:00	0.995	1.078	5
01:00	02:00	0.965	1.023	5
02:00	03:00	0.959	1.052	4
03:00	04:00	1.000	0.850	4
04:00	05:00	1.143	0.841	4
05:00	06:00	0.990	0.830	3
06:00	07:00	1.024	0.808	4
07:00	08:00	1.015	0.772	5
08:00	09:00	1.016	0.848	6
09:00	10:00	1.043	0.824	6
10:00	11:00	1.018	0.924	6
11:00	12:00	1.026	0.961	6
12:00	13:00	1.005	1.015	6
13:00	14:00	1.008	1.094	6
14:00	15:00	1.004	1.115	6
15:00	16:00	0.977	1.187	6
16:00	17:00	0.996	1.240	6
17:00	18:00	0.988	0.931	5
18:00	19:00	0.953	1.142	4
19:00	20:00	0.942	1.134	4
20:00	21:00	0.976	1.097	5
21:00	22:00	0.951	1.107	4
22:00	23:00	1.020	1.101	3
23:00	00:00	0.985	1.025	5

Each hour is indexed against the 24 hours around it, item by item across the market's largest positions, then centred so an average hour reads 1.000. For the day-of-week pattern, see market structure.

▸How this is worked out

Every hourly price is divided by the same item's average over the 24 hours around it, so a price drifting over the month does not make one end of the day look dear. The best buy window is the cheapest run of three hours and the best sell window the dearest; the spread buys at the cheap window's lowest buyout and sells at the dear window's typical price less the cut. Forever's history restarts at launch, so a live market's pattern never includes beta scans.

Common questions

When is the WoW Forever auction house cheapest during the day?: Across PvP Horde EU, prices run cheapest around 19:00 UTC (20:00 CET), 5.8% under the daily average, and dearest around 04:00 UTC (05:00 CET), 14.3% over. The pattern is read from the hourly price of the market's largest positions over the last few weeks, each hour against the day around it.
What is the best time of day to buy and sell Quillshooter?: On PvP Horde EU, Quillshooter is cheapest from 15:00 to 18:00 UTC (16:00 to 19:00 CET) and dearest from 08:00 to 11:00 UTC (09:00 to 12:00 CET). Buying in the cheap hours and selling in the dear ones returns about 29% after the 5 percent cut.
How is the hour-of-day pattern worked out?: Every hourly price is divided by the same item’s average over the 24 hours around it, so a price drifting up or down over the month does not make one end of the day look dear, and the 24 hours are then centred so an average hour reads 1.000. The best buy window is the cheapest run of three hours and the best sell window the dearest. Hours are UTC, with the hour on the wall in the zone most of the market’s players keep beside them.
How much history does the pattern need?: Each hour of the day needs a few days of scans behind it before its figure means anything. The confidence line reads the thinnest hour: settled from ten days of scans, provisional from three, too early under that, and no pattern at all while fewer than half the hours have been scanned. Scanning PvP Horde EU through the night fills the gaps.