Best hours to buy and sell

Common questions

What is the best time of day to buy and sell Schematic: Mechanical Dragonling?

On Normal Alliance US, Schematic: Mechanical Dragonling is cheapest from 02:00 to 05:00 UTC (18:00 to 21:00 Pacific) and dearest from 02:00 to 05:00 UTC (18:00 to 21:00 Pacific). The gap between them does not cover the 5 percent cut, so this is a buying pattern, not a flip.

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 US through the night fills the gaps.