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, Giant Egg is cheapest from 21:00 to 00:00 UTC (22:00 to 01:00 CET) and dearest from 17:00 to 20:00 UTC (18:00 to 21:00 CET). Buying in the cheap hours and selling in the dear ones returns about 51% 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

21:00 to 00:00 UTC

22:00 to 01:00 CET · index 0.879 · typical 72s 55c

Best hours to sell

17:00 to 20:00 UTC

18:00 to 21:00 CET · index 1.071 · typical 90s 26c

Spread after the 5% cut

+51%

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 2 days of scans behind it over the last 28 days. Read the windows as a hint, not a rule.

Giant Eggby hour · PvP Horde EU

Hour (UTC)	CET	Typical	Lowest	Listings	Index	Days
00:00	01:00	88s 94c	80s 34c	32	1.054	4
01:00	02:00	80s 38c	80s 25c	29	0.958	4
02:00	03:00	80s 34c	80s	34	0.969	4
03:00	04:00	80s 31c	78s	29	0.976	4
04:00	05:00	1g 6s 65c	78s 97c	15	1.242	2
05:00	06:00	72s 85c	71s 50c	63	0.957	2
06:00	07:00	82s 66c	81s 65c	42	0.994	3
07:00	08:00	78s 31c	77s 73c	43	0.972	4
08:00	09:00	77s 99c	76s 72c	45	0.979	4
09:00	10:00	77s 99c	76s 98c	41	0.991	4
10:00	11:00	77s 98c	77s 48c	44	0.997	4
11:00	12:00	77s 98c	75s 49c	41	1.005	4
12:00	13:00	77s 98c	72s 11c	37	1.009	4
13:00	14:00	77s 98c	67s 98c	30	1.025	4
14:00	15:00	72s 73c	70s 74c	21	0.978	4
15:00	16:00	77s 72c	71s 23c	17	1.044	4
16:00	17:00	82s 48c	80s 19c	18	1.034	5
17:00	18:00	93s 48c	92s 99c	6	1.067	4
18:00	19:00	89s 2c	84s 20c	25	1.074	3
19:00	20:00	88s 27c	59s 21c	26	1.072	3
20:00	21:00	82s 83c	64s 89c	20	0.967	4
21:00	22:00	60s 16c	57s 71c	51	0.852	2
22:00	23:00	80s 82c	47s 50c	13	0.881	2
23:00	00:00	76s 67c	64s 60c	26	0.904	4

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/12207 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 Giant Egg?: On PvP Horde EU, Giant Egg is cheapest from 21:00 to 00:00 UTC (22:00 to 01:00 CET) and dearest from 17:00 to 20:00 UTC (18:00 to 21:00 CET). Buying in the cheap hours and selling in the dear ones returns about 51% 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.