When is the WoW Forever auction house cheapest during the day?

Across PvP Horde US, prices run cheapest around 06:00 UTC (22:00 Pacific), 3.5% under the daily average, and dearest around 09:00 UTC (01:00 Pacific), 5.3% 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 US 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 US, Shredder Operating Manual - Page 2 is cheapest from 09:00 to 12:00 UTC (01:00 to 04:00 Pacific) and dearest from 04:00 to 07:00 UTC (20:00 to 23:00 Pacific). Buying in the cheap hours and selling in the dear ones returns about 332% 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

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

01:00 to 04:00 Pacific · index 0.681 · typical 16s 78c

Best hours to sell

04:00 to 07:00 UTC

20:00 to 23:00 Pacific · index 1.355 · typical 39s 14c

Spread after the 5% cut

+332%

buy at the cheap hours' lowest buyout, sell at the dear hours' typical price

Confidence

provisional

Provisional: the thinnest hour has 3 days of scans behind it over the last 28 days; 10 makes it settled.

Shredder Operating Manual - Page 2by hour · PvP Horde US

Hour (UTC)	Pacific	Typical	Lowest	Listings	Index	Days
00:00	16:00	40s 88c	10s 25c	197	1.289	4
01:00	17:00	24s 42c	11s	105	1.029	3
02:00	18:00	46s 90c	24s 20c	127	1.693	5
03:00	19:00	34s 54c	12s 80c	153	1.119	5
04:00	20:00	34s 21c	7s 80c	165	1.093	5
05:00	21:00	48s 7c	9s 33c	242	1.475	3
06:00	22:00	35s 15c	7s 60c	127	1.497	5
07:00	23:00	20s 13c	9s 50c	108	0.902	4
08:00	00:00	26s 63c	18s 75c	100	1.234	4
09:00	01:00	18s 57c	9s	104	0.794	5
10:00	02:00	14s 97c	8s 83c	92	0.612	6
11:00	03:00	16s 79c	8s	87	0.637	6
12:00	04:00	19s 75c	11s	117	0.847	5
13:00	05:00	19s 27c	10s 67c	93	0.911	6
14:00	06:00	18s 29c	10s	85	0.806	6
15:00	07:00	18s 60c	8s 20c	103	0.822	5
16:00	08:00	22s 7c	10s 17c	84	1.030	6
17:00	09:00	15s 21c	9s	87	0.726	6
18:00	10:00	13s 31c	8s 17c	100	0.640	6
19:00	11:00	15s 72c	7s 83c	94	0.824	6
20:00	12:00	13s 33c	5s 60c	92	0.622	5
21:00	13:00	30s 13c	16s 40c	79	0.994	5
22:00	14:00	41s 33c	35s 75c	155	1.267	4
23:00	15:00	35s 12c	13s	153	1.137	5

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/16646 on the API.

The whole market by hour · PvP Horde US

Hour (UTC)	Pacific	Price index	Listings index	Days
00:00	16:00	1.008	1.030	5
01:00	17:00	1.012	0.995	4
02:00	18:00	1.048	0.953	6
03:00	19:00	1.022	1.018	6
04:00	20:00	0.983	1.071	6
05:00	21:00	0.968	1.099	4
06:00	22:00	0.965	1.127	6
07:00	23:00	1.012	1.114	4
08:00	00:00	1.042	1.047	5
09:00	01:00	1.053	1.007	6
10:00	02:00	0.995	1.034	6
11:00	03:00	0.982	1.002	6
12:00	04:00	0.978	0.988	6
13:00	05:00	0.970	0.971	6
14:00	06:00	0.993	0.949	6
15:00	07:00	0.997	0.936	5
16:00	08:00	1.010	0.909	6
17:00	09:00	1.013	0.947	6
18:00	10:00	1.029	0.984	6
19:00	11:00	0.998	1.036	6
20:00	12:00	0.987	0.924	5
21:00	13:00	0.981	0.952	5
22:00	14:00	0.971	0.922	4
23:00	15:00	0.984	0.985	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 US, prices run cheapest around 06:00 UTC (22:00 Pacific), 3.5% under the daily average, and dearest around 09:00 UTC (01:00 Pacific), 5.3% 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 Shredder Operating Manual - Page 2?: On PvP Horde US, Shredder Operating Manual - Page 2 is cheapest from 09:00 to 12:00 UTC (01:00 to 04:00 Pacific) and dearest from 04:00 to 07:00 UTC (20:00 to 23:00 Pacific). Buying in the cheap hours and selling in the dear ones returns about 332% 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.