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), 6.2% under the daily average, and dearest around 04:00 UTC (05:00 CET), 14.2% 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.

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, Symbol of Divinity is cheapest from 10:00 to 13:00 UTC (11:00 to 14:00 CET) and dearest from 17:00 to 20:00 UTC (18:00 to 21:00 CET). Buying in the cheap hours and selling in the dear ones returns about 23% 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

10:00 to 13:00 UTC

11:00 to 14:00 CET · index 0.921 · typical 26s 17c

Best hours to sell

17:00 to 20:00 UTC

18:00 to 21:00 CET · index 1.063 · typical 32s 70c

Spread after the 5% cut

+23%

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.

Symbol of Divinityby hour · PvP Horde EU

Hour (UTC)	CET	Typical	Lowest	Listings	Index	Days
00:00	01:00	31s 83c	30s 22c	9	1.037	4
01:00	02:00	31s 24c	25s 47c	7	1.021	4
02:00	03:00	30s 50c	25s 47c	7	0.982	4
03:00	04:00	31s 47c	30s 47c	5	1.030	4
04:00	05:00	35s	34s	8	1.074	2
05:00	06:00	25s 94c	25s 94c	3	0.939	2
06:00	07:00	29s 96c	29s 63c	3	0.977	3
07:00	08:00	29s 97c	26s 25c	4	1.032	4
08:00	09:00	29s 61c	26s 17c	5	1.023	4
09:00	10:00	26s 98c	25s 17c	6	0.936	4
10:00	11:00	26s 17c	25s 17c	7	0.911	4
11:00	12:00	26s 17c	25s 15c	7	0.920	4
12:00	13:00	26s 16c	25s 15c	8	0.933	4
13:00	14:00	26s 15c	25s 75c	8	0.949	4
14:00	15:00	26s	25s 75c	8	0.961	4
15:00	16:00	26s 16c	25s 75c	7	0.978	4
16:00	17:00	33s 25c	33s	7	0.992	4
17:00	18:00	36s 28c	32s 99c	7	1.175	4
18:00	19:00	31s 16c	30s 33c	10	1.018	3
19:00	20:00	30s 66c	29s 98c	9	0.997	3
20:00	21:00	30s 67c	28s 59c	9	1.017	3
21:00	22:00	24s 97c	20s 95c	15	1.025	2
22:00	23:00	36s 95c	35s 1c	11	1.035	2
23:00	00:00	29s 32c	27s 29c	12	1.037	3

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/17033 on the API.

The whole market by hour · PvP Horde EU

Hour (UTC)	CET	Price index	Listings index	Days
00:00	01:00	0.996	1.079	5
01:00	02:00	0.970	1.024	5
02:00	03:00	0.958	1.050	4
03:00	04:00	1.003	0.843	4
04:00	05:00	1.142	0.833	4
05:00	06:00	0.992	0.833	3
06:00	07:00	1.023	0.811	4
07:00	08:00	1.016	0.771	5
08:00	09:00	1.015	0.854	6
09:00	10:00	1.042	0.828	6
10:00	11:00	1.017	0.931	6
11:00	12:00	1.023	0.977	6
12:00	13:00	1.002	1.036	6
13:00	14:00	1.006	1.115	6
14:00	15:00	1.001	1.143	6
15:00	16:00	0.968	1.229	6
16:00	17:00	1.016	1.093	5
17:00	18:00	0.991	0.932	5
18:00	19:00	0.951	1.148	4
19:00	20:00	0.938	1.138	4
20:00	21:00	0.980	1.097	5
21:00	22:00	0.952	1.102	4
22:00	23:00	1.017	1.107	3
23:00	00:00	0.983	1.026	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), 6.2% under the daily average, and dearest around 04:00 UTC (05:00 CET), 14.2% 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 Symbol of Divinity?: On PvP Horde EU, Symbol of Divinity is cheapest from 10:00 to 13:00 UTC (11:00 to 14:00 CET) and dearest from 17:00 to 20:00 UTC (18:00 to 21:00 CET). Buying in the cheap hours and selling in the dear ones returns about 23% 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.