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), 6.6% under the daily average, and dearest around 04:00 UTC (05:00 CET), 15.1% 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, Hacking Cleaver is cheapest from 10:00 to 13:00 UTC (11:00 to 14:00 CET) and dearest from 16:00 to 19:00 UTC (17:00 to 20:00 CET). Buying in the cheap hours and selling in the dear ones returns about 27% 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

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Item

Best hours to buy

10:00 to 13:00 UTC

11:00 to 14:00 CET · index 0.885 · typical 1g 14s 47c

Best hours to sell

16:00 to 19:00 UTC

17:00 to 20:00 CET · index 1.099 · typical 1g 26s 85c

Spread after the 5% cut

+27%

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.

Hacking Cleaverby hour · PvP Horde EU

Hour (UTC)	CET	Typical	Lowest	Listings	Index	Days
00:00	01:00	1g 51s 45c	1g 20s 20c	26	1.033	5
01:00	02:00	1g 52s 25c	1g 20s 20c	26	1.060	5
02:00	03:00	1g 1s 63c	72s	34	0.951	4
03:00	04:00	1g 8s	72s	26	0.996	4
04:00	05:00	1g 61s 67c	1g 45s 33c	20	1.061	3
05:00	06:00	1g 81s 11c	1g 57s 67c	16	1.041	3
06:00	07:00	1g 70s 38c	1g 34s 25c	17	1.132	4
07:00	08:00	1g 38s 80c	1g 19s 80c	17	0.982	5
08:00	09:00	1g 25c	72s 25c	26	0.985	4
09:00	10:00	92s 27c	72s 25c	25	0.923	4
10:00	11:00	1g 15s 90c	91s 60c	24	0.893	5
11:00	12:00	1g 8s 82c	91s 60c	23	0.859	5
12:00	13:00	1g 18s 70c	1g 1s 40c	27	0.904	5
13:00	14:00	1g 17s 20c	1g 1s 40c	30	0.900	5
14:00	15:00	1g 13s 40c	86s 25c	25	0.962	4
15:00	16:00	99s 73c	63s 67c	34	1.055	3
16:00	17:00	1g 37s 30c	1g 10s 25c	27	1.074	4
17:00	18:00	1g 43s	99s 75c	22	1.149	4
18:00	19:00	1g 25c	65s 33c	33	1.073	3
19:00	20:00	97s 12c	60s 67c	36	1.055	3
20:00	21:00	1g 13s 47c	91s	29	0.989	4
21:00	22:00	87s 11c	62s 50c	43	0.997	2
22:00	23:00	85s	63s 50c	40	0.943	2
23:00	00:00	1g 9s 82c	72s 75c	30	0.982	4

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/15232 on the API.

The whole market by hour · PvP Horde EU

Hour (UTC)	CET	Price index	Listings index	Days
00:00	01:00	0.985	1.066	5
01:00	02:00	0.960	1.004	5
02:00	03:00	0.961	1.029	4
03:00	04:00	0.998	0.840	4
04:00	05:00	1.151	0.830	4
05:00	06:00	0.997	0.832	3
06:00	07:00	1.037	0.818	4
07:00	08:00	1.029	0.780	5
08:00	09:00	1.033	0.881	6
09:00	10:00	1.050	0.868	6
10:00	11:00	1.019	0.986	6
11:00	12:00	1.023	1.023	6
12:00	13:00	1.002	1.094	6
13:00	14:00	0.998	1.193	6
14:00	15:00	0.986	1.062	5
15:00	16:00	0.965	1.061	5
16:00	17:00	1.010	1.090	5
17:00	18:00	0.986	0.931	5
18:00	19:00	0.945	1.139	4
19:00	20:00	0.934	1.136	4
20:00	21:00	0.978	1.096	5
21:00	22:00	0.944	1.109	4
22:00	23:00	1.033	1.107	3
23:00	00:00	0.977	1.024	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), 6.6% under the daily average, and dearest around 04:00 UTC (05:00 CET), 15.1% 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 Hacking Cleaver?: On PvP Horde EU, Hacking Cleaver is cheapest from 10:00 to 13:00 UTC (11:00 to 14:00 CET) and dearest from 16:00 to 19:00 UTC (17:00 to 20:00 CET). Buying in the cheap hours and selling in the dear ones returns about 27% 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.