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 Normal Alliance EU, Rakzur Club is cheapest from 23:00 to 02:00 UTC (00:00 to 03:00 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 379% after the 5 percent cut.
Current market: Normal Alliance EU. This browser opens every tool here until you pick another. Address for this market: ahledger.com/timing?market=forever/normal/alliance/eu
Item
Best hours to buy
23:00 to 02:00 UTC
00:00 to 03:00 CET · index 0.827 · typical 1g 32s 12c
Best hours to sell
17:00 to 20:00 UTC
18:00 to 21:00 CET · index 1.456 · typical 5g 59s 36c
Spread after the 5% cut
+379%
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.
Rakzur Clubby hour · Normal Alliance EU
| Hour (UTC) | CET | Typical | Lowest | Listings | Index | Days |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 00:00 | 1g 27s 39c | 1g 15s | 0.815 | |||
| 01:00 | 1g 34s 33c | 93s 33c | 0.802 | |||
| 02:00 | 1g 1s 86c | 91s 33c | 0.958 | |||
| 03:00 | 1g 25s 88c | 1g 16s 25c | 0.832 | |||
| 04:00 | 1g 1s | 90s 50c | 1.003 | |||
| 05:00 | 1g 56s 88c | 1g 53s | 0.771 | |||
| 06:00 | 99s 67c | 94s 33c | 0.958 | |||
| 07:00 | 1g 21s 25c | 1g 16s 25c | 0.887 | |||
| 08:00 | 1g 21s 42c | 98s 75c | 0.964 | |||
| 09:00 | 1g 21s 30c | 81s | 0.997 | |||
| 10:00 | 1g 34s 89c | 1g 9s 67c | 1.034 | |||
| 11:00 | 1g 40s 89c | 1g 13s 33c | 1.102 | |||
| 12:00 | 1g 32s 53c | 1g | 1.058 | |||
| 13:00 | 1g 23s 56c | 99s 33c | 1.005 | |||
| 14:00 | 1g 22s 52c | 1g 13s 67c | 1.008 | |||
| 15:00 | 1g 15s 88c | 93s | 0.972 | |||
| 16:00 | 1g 15s 44c | 1g 4s 33c | 0.975 | |||
| 17:00 | 5g 86s 25c | 5g 79s 75c | 1.485 | |||
| 18:00 | 5g 86s 25c | 5g 79s 75c | 1.496 | |||
| 19:00 | 5g 5s 57c | 4g 91s 67c | 1.388 | |||
| 20:00 | 2g 17s 97c | 1g 38s 25c | 0.960 | |||
| 21:00 | 1g 45s 5c | 1g 20s 50c | 0.845 | |||
| 22:00 | 1g 49s 76c | 1g 30s | 0.820 | |||
| 23:00 | 1g 34s 65c | 1g 24s 25c | 0.865 |
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.normal.alliance.eu/12983 on the API.
The whole market by hour · Normal Alliance EU
| Hour (UTC) | CET | Price index | Listings index | Days |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 00:00 | 0.983 | 1.172 | 5 | |
| 01:00 | 0.998 | 1.160 | 4 | |
| 02:00 | 1.064 | 1.081 | 4 | |
| 03:00 | 1.022 | 1.010 | 5 | |
| 04:00 | 1.004 | 1.008 | 3 | |
| 05:00 | 1.042 | 0.760 | 3 | |
| 06:00 | 1.029 | 0.920 | 3 | |
| 07:00 | 1.017 | 0.883 | 4 | |
| 08:00 | 1.012 | 0.887 | 4 | |
| 09:00 | 1.015 | 0.904 | 5 | |
| 10:00 | 1.021 | 0.811 | 4 | |
| 11:00 | 1.016 | 0.873 | 4 | |
| 12:00 | 1.011 | 0.910 | 4 | |
| 13:00 | 0.995 | 0.967 | 4 | |
| 14:00 | 1.006 | 1.011 | 4 | |
| 15:00 | 0.982 | 1.042 | 4 | |
| 16:00 | 1.000 | 1.002 | 4 | |
| 17:00 | 0.963 | 1.084 | 4 | |
| 18:00 | 0.953 | 1.127 | 4 | |
| 19:00 | 0.979 | 1.031 | 3 | |
| 20:00 | 0.957 | 1.128 | 4 | |
| 21:00 | 0.963 | 1.131 | 4 | |
| 22:00 | 0.980 | 1.087 | 3 | |
| 23:00 | 0.987 | 1.011 | 4 |
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 Normal Alliance EU, prices run cheapest around 18:00 UTC (19:00 CET), 4.7% under the daily average, and dearest around 02:00 UTC (03:00 CET), 6.4% 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 Rakzur Club?
- On Normal Alliance EU, Rakzur Club is cheapest from 23:00 to 02:00 UTC (00:00 to 03:00 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 379% 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 Normal Alliance EU through the night fills the gaps.