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), 6.3% under the daily average, and dearest around 04:00 UTC (05:00 CET), 14.6% 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, Dragonbreath Chili is cheapest from 10:00 to 13:00 UTC (11:00 to 14:00 CET) and dearest from 02:00 to 05:00 UTC (03:00 to 06:00 CET). Buying in the cheap hours and selling in the dear ones returns about 506% 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

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Item

Best hours to buy

10:00 to 13:00 UTC

11:00 to 14:00 CET · index 0.766 · typical 33s 22c

Best hours to sell

02:00 to 05:00 UTC

03:00 to 06:00 CET · index 1.300 · typical 2g 11s 9c

Spread after the 5% cut

+506%

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.

Dragonbreath Chiliby hour · PvP Horde EU

Hour (UTC)	CET	Typical	Lowest	Listings	Index	Days
00:00	01:00	1g 84s 65c	1g 84s 31c	7	1.117	3
01:00	02:00	1g 84s 65c	1g 83s 64c	6	1.166	3
02:00	03:00	1g 84s 64c	1g 83s 64c	8	1.215	3
03:00	04:00	1g 84s 65c	1g 84s 64c	6	1.265	3
04:00	05:00	2g 63s 99c	2g 63s 49c	6	1.421	2
05:00	06:00	23s 96c	23s 94c	14	1.045	1
06:00	07:00	23s 96c	23s 94c	14	1.050	1
07:00	08:00	26s 31c	25s 97c	9	1.026	2
08:00	09:00	25s 47c	24s 97c	12	1.004	2
09:00	10:00	39s 84c	33s 31c	7	0.987	3
10:00	11:00	33s 31c	33s 31c	8	0.753	3
11:00	12:00	33s 38c	32s 98c	8	0.771	3
12:00	13:00	32s 98c	32s 97c	9	0.774	3
13:00	14:00	32s 98c	31s 99c	10	0.797	3
14:00	15:00	32s 32c	31s 31c	12	0.800	3
15:00	16:00	31s 10c	29s 24c	14	0.819	3
16:00	17:00	32s 2c	28s 31c	12	0.908	3
17:00	18:00	32s 9c	28s 31c	9	1.061	3
18:00	19:00	37s 74c	36s 99c	5	1.124	2
19:00	20:00	28s 40c	26s 99c	6	0.893	2
20:00	21:00	33s 85c	26s 99c	6	1.044	2
21:00	22:00	26s 99c	26s 99c	8	0.860	2
22:00	23:00	2g 65s	2g 65s	4	1.034	2
23:00	00:00	1g 84s 65c	1g 84s 64c	5	1.067	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/12217 on the API.

The whole market by hour · PvP Horde EU

Hour (UTC)	CET	Price index	Listings index	Days
00:00	01:00	0.994	1.083	5
01:00	02:00	0.965	1.025	5
02:00	03:00	0.961	1.048	4
03:00	04:00	1.003	0.844	4
04:00	05:00	1.146	0.838	4
05:00	06:00	0.994	0.814	3
06:00	07:00	1.025	0.809	4
07:00	08:00	1.017	0.764	5
08:00	09:00	1.009	0.852	6
09:00	10:00	1.037	0.823	6
10:00	11:00	1.013	0.917	6
11:00	12:00	1.024	0.951	6
12:00	13:00	1.004	1.005	6
13:00	14:00	1.002	1.077	6
14:00	15:00	1.001	1.088	6
15:00	16:00	0.973	1.157	6
16:00	17:00	0.994	1.210	6
17:00	18:00	0.993	1.052	6
18:00	19:00	0.952	1.155	4
19:00	20:00	0.937	1.144	4
20:00	21:00	0.987	1.090	5
21:00	22:00	0.961	1.115	4
22:00	23:00	1.026	1.107	3
23:00	00:00	0.985	1.031	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), 6.3% under the daily average, and dearest around 04:00 UTC (05:00 CET), 14.6% 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 Dragonbreath Chili?: On PvP Horde EU, Dragonbreath Chili is cheapest from 10:00 to 13:00 UTC (11:00 to 14:00 CET) and dearest from 02:00 to 05:00 UTC (03:00 to 06:00 CET). Buying in the cheap hours and selling in the dear ones returns about 506% 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.