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 Alliance US, Starfaller is cheapest from 18:00 to 21:00 UTC (10:00 to 13:00 Pacific) and dearest from 21:00 to 00:00 UTC (13:00 to 16:00 Pacific). Buying in the cheap hours and selling in the dear ones returns about 51% after the 5 percent cut.
Current market: PvP Alliance US. This browser opens every tool here until you pick another. Address for this market: ahledger.com/timing?market=forever/pvp/alliance/us
Item
Best hours to buy
18:00 to 21:00 UTC
10:00 to 13:00 Pacific · index 0.881 · typical 2g 28s 28c
Best hours to sell
21:00 to 00:00 UTC
13:00 to 16:00 Pacific · index 1.199 · typical 3g 48s 39c
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 1 day of scans behind it over the last 28 days. Read the windows as a hint, not a rule.
Starfallerby hour · PvP Alliance US
| Hour (UTC) | Pacific | Typical | Lowest | Listings | Index | Days |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 00:00 | 3g 39s 80c | 2g 97s 50c | 1.073 | |||
| 01:00 | 3g 2s 50c | 2g 97s 50c | 0.976 | |||
| 02:00 | 3g 2s 50c | 2g 37s 50c | 0.988 | |||
| 03:00 | 2g 50s | 1g 88s 33c | 0.976 | |||
| 04:00 | 2g 35s | 1g 78s | 0.951 | |||
| 05:00 | 2g 48s 13c | 1g 95s 75c | 0.938 | |||
| 06:00 | 2g 48s 38c | 2g 8s 75c | 0.953 | |||
| 07:00 | 2g 82s 67c | 2g 76s 33c | 0.955 | |||
| 08:00 | 2g 64s 67c | 2g 58s 33c | 0.946 | |||
| 09:00 | 3g 24s 50c | 3g 14s 50c | 0.920 | |||
| 10:00 | 2g 82s 67c | 2g 72s 67c | 0.955 | |||
| 11:00 | 2g 82s 67c | 2g 76s | 0.972 | |||
| 12:00 | 1g 99s | 1g 99s | 1.053 | |||
| 13:00 | 2g 74s | 2g 74s | 1.062 | |||
| 14:00 | 3g 24s 50c | 3g 24s 50c | 0.981 | |||
| 15:00 | 2g 82s 67c | 2g 71s 67c | 1.026 | |||
| 16:00 | 3g 24s 25c | 2g 60s | 1.011 | |||
| 17:00 | 3g 24s | 2g 56s 50c | 1.025 | |||
| 18:00 | 2g 25s | 2g 21s | 0.863 | |||
| 19:00 | 2g 36s 50c | 2g 20s | 0.932 | |||
| 20:00 | 2g 23s 33c | 2g 16s 67c | 0.849 | |||
| 21:00 | 3g 34s 50c | 3g 20s 50c | 1.207 | |||
| 22:00 | 3g 89s 67c | 3g 81s 33c | 1.293 | |||
| 23:00 | 3g 21s | 3g 7s 50c | 1.097 |
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.alliance.us/13063 on the API.
The whole market by hour · PvP Alliance US
| Hour (UTC) | Pacific | Price index | Listings index | Days |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 00:00 | 1.009 | 1.004 | 4 | |
| 01:00 | 1.068 | 0.851 | 3 | |
| 02:00 | 0.966 | 1.095 | 3 | |
| 03:00 | 0.982 | 1.106 | 4 | |
| 04:00 | 1.004 | 1.073 | 5 | |
| 05:00 | 1.013 | 1.110 | 6 | |
| 06:00 | 1.024 | 1.193 | 5 | |
| 07:00 | 1.007 | 1.041 | 6 | |
| 08:00 | 1.015 | 1.320 | 5 | |
| 09:00 | 1.001 | 1.130 | 4 | |
| 10:00 | 1.004 | 0.918 | 5 | |
| 11:00 | 0.982 | 1.085 | 4 | |
| 12:00 | 0.970 | 0.985 | 3 | |
| 13:00 | 0.966 | 0.988 | 4 | |
| 14:00 | 1.134 | 0.842 | 5 | |
| 15:00 | 0.953 | 0.954 | 4 | |
| 16:00 | 1.103 | 0.794 | 5 | |
| 17:00 | 0.969 | 0.884 | 4 | |
| 18:00 | 0.936 | 0.967 | 4 | |
| 19:00 | 0.956 | 0.870 | 4 | |
| 20:00 | 0.931 | 0.979 | 4 | |
| 21:00 | 0.936 | 0.957 | 3 | |
| 22:00 | 1.030 | 0.896 | 4 | |
| 23:00 | 1.040 | 0.958 | 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 Alliance US, prices run cheapest around 20:00 UTC (12:00 Pacific), 6.9% under the daily average, and dearest around 14:00 UTC (06:00 Pacific), 13.4% 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 Starfaller?
- On PvP Alliance US, Starfaller is cheapest from 18:00 to 21:00 UTC (10:00 to 13:00 Pacific) and dearest from 21:00 to 00:00 UTC (13:00 to 16:00 Pacific). 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 Alliance US through the night fills the gaps.