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), 5.9% under the daily average, and dearest around 04:00 UTC (05:00 CET), 13.5% 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, Spiked Chain Breastplate is cheapest from 09:00 to 12:00 UTC (10:00 to 13:00 CET) and dearest from 23:00 to 02:00 UTC (00:00 to 03:00 CET). Buying in the cheap hours and selling in the dear ones returns about 91% 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

09:00 to 12:00 UTC

10:00 to 13:00 CET · index 0.824 · typical 47s 24c

Best hours to sell

23:00 to 02:00 UTC

00:00 to 03:00 CET · index 1.151 · typical 71s 95c

Spread after the 5% cut

+91%

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.

Spiked Chain Breastplateby hour · PvP Horde EU

Hour (UTC)	CET	Typical	Lowest	Listings	Index	Days
00:00	01:00	78s 67c	49s 75c	11	1.310	4
01:00	02:00	66s 13c	49s 75c	10	1.025	4
02:00	03:00	64s 75c	44s 75c	11	1.004	4
03:00	04:00	70s 75c	54s 75c	9	1.141	4
04:00	05:00	61s 25c	34s 50c	14	1.235	2
05:00	06:00	75s	74s 50c	6	0.954	2
06:00	07:00	63s 33c	55s 33c	11	0.925	3
07:00	08:00	56s 81c	49s	8	0.901	4
08:00	09:00	55s 63c	36s 75c	9	0.932	4
09:00	10:00	46s 75c	35s 75c	9	0.829	4
10:00	11:00	48s 50c	35s 75c	10	0.805	4
11:00	12:00	46s 48c	35s 75c	11	0.839	4
12:00	13:00	67s 7c	57s	9	0.911	5
13:00	14:00	73s 82c	57s 20c	11	1.071	5
14:00	15:00	74s 26c	57s 20c	10	1.105	5
15:00	16:00	52s 87c	35s 50c	12	1.022	4
16:00	17:00	70s 93c	55s 80c	11	1.031	5
17:00	18:00	75s 36c	56s	10	1.140	5
18:00	19:00	44s 25c	33s 75c	14	0.849	4
19:00	20:00	51s 74c	31s 25c	15	0.972	4
20:00	21:00	76s 61c	57s 25c	11	1.063	4
21:00	22:00	37s 17c	29s 50c	14	0.819	2
22:00	23:00	51s 67c	36s 50c	15	0.999	2
23:00	00:00	71s 4c	52s 25c	11	1.119	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/15518 on the API.

The whole market by hour · PvP Horde EU

Hour (UTC)	CET	Price index	Listings index	Days
00:00	01:00	0.983	1.094	5
01:00	02:00	0.969	1.031	5
02:00	03:00	0.963	1.058	4
03:00	04:00	0.998	0.851	4
04:00	05:00	1.135	0.846	4
05:00	06:00	0.990	0.835	3
06:00	07:00	1.017	0.807	4
07:00	08:00	1.010	0.757	5
08:00	09:00	1.003	0.833	6
09:00	10:00	1.033	0.807	6
10:00	11:00	1.009	0.898	6
11:00	12:00	1.028	0.927	6
12:00	13:00	1.011	0.974	6
13:00	14:00	1.003	1.046	6
14:00	15:00	1.004	1.059	6
15:00	16:00	0.980	1.124	6
16:00	17:00	0.997	1.170	6
17:00	18:00	0.997	1.050	6
18:00	19:00	0.979	1.175	5
19:00	20:00	0.941	1.291	5
20:00	21:00	0.982	1.106	5
21:00	22:00	0.963	1.116	4
22:00	23:00	1.023	1.107	3
23:00	00:00	0.981	1.039	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), 5.9% under the daily average, and dearest around 04:00 UTC (05:00 CET), 13.5% 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 Spiked Chain Breastplate?: On PvP Horde EU, Spiked Chain Breastplate is cheapest from 09:00 to 12:00 UTC (10:00 to 13:00 CET) and dearest from 23:00 to 02:00 UTC (00:00 to 03:00 CET). Buying in the cheap hours and selling in the dear ones returns about 91% 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.