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 US, Bristlebark Boots is cheapest from 13:00 to 16:00 UTC (05:00 to 08:00 Pacific) and dearest from 23:00 to 02:00 UTC (15:00 to 18:00 Pacific). Buying in the cheap hours and selling in the dear ones returns about 73% after the 5 percent cut.
Current market: PvP Horde US. This browser opens every tool here until you pick another. Address for this market: ahledger.com/timing?market=forever/pvp/horde/us
Item
Best hours to buy
13:00 to 16:00 UTC
05:00 to 08:00 Pacific · index 0.910 · typical 29s 19c
Best hours to sell
23:00 to 02:00 UTC
15:00 to 18:00 Pacific · index 1.103 · typical 43s 96c
Spread after the 5% cut
+73%
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.
Bristlebark Bootsby hour · PvP Horde US
| Hour (UTC) | Pacific | Typical | Lowest | Listings | Index | Days |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 00:00 | 41s 33c | 39s 67c | 1.108 | |||
| 01:00 | 49s 29c | 45s | 1.127 | |||
| 02:00 | 38s 88c | 34s 50c | 1.057 | |||
| 03:00 | 38s 53c | 32s 75c | 1.056 | |||
| 04:00 | 38s 58c | 32s 50c | 1.075 | |||
| 05:00 | 22s | 16s 50c | 1.007 | |||
| 06:00 | 35s 63c | 31s | 1.019 | |||
| 07:00 | 37s 33c | 30s 67c | 1.035 | |||
| 08:00 | 24s 67c | 22s 67c | 1.027 | |||
| 09:00 | 33s 82c | 27s | 1.010 | |||
| 10:00 | 33s 5c | 26s 75c | 0.994 | |||
| 11:00 | 32s 75c | 26s 25c | 0.992 | |||
| 12:00 | 29s 75c | 26s | 0.951 | |||
| 13:00 | 28s 50c | 23s 50c | 0.934 | |||
| 14:00 | 31s 74c | 27s 60c | 0.879 | |||
| 15:00 | 27s 33c | 21s 25c | 0.918 | |||
| 16:00 | 37s 30c | 31s 60c | 0.969 | |||
| 17:00 | 36s 37c | 33s 20c | 0.958 | |||
| 18:00 | 39s 89c | 36s 75c | 0.947 | |||
| 19:00 | 39s 75c | 37s 25c | 0.949 | |||
| 20:00 | 39s | 36s 75c | 0.941 | |||
| 21:00 | 39s 25c | 35s | 0.963 | |||
| 22:00 | 28s 89c | 22s 33c | 1.012 | |||
| 23:00 | 41s 25c | 36s 25c | 1.075 |
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.us/14568 on the API.
The whole market by hour · PvP Horde US
| Hour (UTC) | Pacific | Price index | Listings index | Days |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 00:00 | 1.043 | 1.010 | 4 | |
| 01:00 | 1.132 | 0.883 | 3 | |
| 02:00 | 1.071 | 0.818 | 5 | |
| 03:00 | 1.034 | 1.054 | 5 | |
| 04:00 | 1.018 | 1.049 | 5 | |
| 05:00 | 1.019 | 1.097 | 3 | |
| 06:00 | 0.996 | 1.117 | 5 | |
| 07:00 | 0.984 | 1.188 | 3 | |
| 08:00 | 0.985 | 1.138 | 4 | |
| 09:00 | 1.007 | 1.091 | 5 | |
| 10:00 | 0.987 | 1.090 | 5 | |
| 11:00 | 0.970 | 1.045 | 5 | |
| 12:00 | 0.962 | 1.050 | 5 | |
| 13:00 | 0.949 | 1.034 | 5 | |
| 14:00 | 0.962 | 1.020 | 5 | |
| 15:00 | 0.990 | 0.986 | 4 | |
| 16:00 | 0.990 | 0.916 | 5 | |
| 17:00 | 0.989 | 0.982 | 5 | |
| 18:00 | 1.006 | 0.851 | 4 | |
| 19:00 | 0.968 | 0.873 | 4 | |
| 20:00 | 0.966 | 0.893 | 4 | |
| 21:00 | 0.978 | 0.919 | 4 | |
| 22:00 | 0.988 | 0.929 | 3 | |
| 23:00 | 1.006 | 0.968 | 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 PvP Horde US, prices run cheapest around 13:00 UTC (05:00 Pacific), 5.1% under the daily average, and dearest around 01:00 UTC (17:00 Pacific), 13.2% 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 Bristlebark Boots?
- On PvP Horde US, Bristlebark Boots is cheapest from 13:00 to 16:00 UTC (05:00 to 08:00 Pacific) and dearest from 23:00 to 02:00 UTC (15:00 to 18:00 Pacific). Buying in the cheap hours and selling in the dear ones returns about 73% 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 US through the night fills the gaps.