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, Embersilk Bracelets is cheapest from 16:00 to 19:00 UTC (17:00 to 20:00 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 123% 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

16:00 to 19:00 UTC

17:00 to 20:00 CET · index 0.713 · typical 56s 61c

Best hours to sell

02:00 to 05:00 UTC

03:00 to 06:00 CET · index 1.341 · typical 1g 29s 86c

Spread after the 5% cut

+123%

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.

Embersilk Braceletsby hour · PvP Horde EU

Hour (UTC)	CET	Typical	Lowest	Listings	Index	Days
00:00	01:00	62s 50c	59s	12	1.024	2
01:00	02:00	1g 23s 33c	1g 12s 67c	7	1.246	3
02:00	03:00	1g 3s 75c	95s 75c	6	1.203	4
03:00	04:00	1g 23s 33c	1g 22s 67c	6	1.295	3
04:00	05:00	1g 62s 50c	1g 47s 50c	4	1.525	2
05:00	06:00	43s 67c	43s	5	0.830	1
06:00	07:00	1g 46s 50c	69s	4	1.313	2
07:00	08:00	1g 12s 67c	62s 33c	4	1.123	3
08:00	09:00	62s 33c	55s 33c	5	0.766	3
09:00	10:00	62s 67c	55s 33c	4	0.783	3
10:00	11:00	62s 83c	55s 33c	5	0.802	3
11:00	12:00	63s	55s 33c	6	0.816	3
12:00	13:00	76s 33c	55s 33c	6	1.093	3
13:00	14:00	81s	55s 33c	5	1.198	3
14:00	15:00	60s 56c	55s 33c	6	0.832	3
15:00	16:00	56s 50c	54s 50c	5	0.721	4
16:00	17:00	55s 25c	54s 50c	6	0.715	4
17:00	18:00	55s 25c	53s 75c	5	0.734	4
18:00	19:00	59s 33c	57s 67c	5	0.691	3
19:00	20:00	82s 42c	72s 67c	5	0.980	3
20:00	21:00	85s 33c	72s 67c	7	1.079	3
21:00	22:00	75s	59s	11	1.249	2
22:00	23:00	75s	75s	8	0.995	1
23:00	00:00	60s 72c	59s	12	0.988	2

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/14226 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 Embersilk Bracelets?: On PvP Horde EU, Embersilk Bracelets is cheapest from 16:00 to 19:00 UTC (17:00 to 20:00 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 123% 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.