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, Heavy Crocolisk Stew is cheapest from 18:00 to 21:00 UTC (19:00 to 22:00 CET) and dearest from 05:00 to 08:00 UTC (06:00 to 09:00 CET). Buying in the cheap hours and selling in the dear ones returns about 149% 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

18:00 to 21:00 UTC

19:00 to 22:00 CET · index 0.850 · typical 6s 14c

Best hours to sell

05:00 to 08:00 UTC

06:00 to 09:00 CET · index 1.155 · typical 15s 69c

Spread after the 5% cut

+149%

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.

Heavy Crocolisk Stewby hour · PvP Horde EU

Hour (UTC)	CET	Typical	Lowest	Listings	Index	Days
00:00	01:00	12s 93c	12s 81c	19	0.999	4
01:00	02:00	12s 84c	12s 73c	20	1.020	4
02:00	03:00	12s 96c	12s 75c	20	1.049	4
03:00	04:00	12s 87c	12s 76c	12	1.076	4
04:00	05:00	6s 39c	6s 7c	29	0.970	2
05:00	06:00	18s 98c	18s 97c	10	1.171	2
06:00	07:00	15s 44c	15s 28c	11	1.161	3
07:00	08:00	12s 65c	12s 45c	12	1.133	4
08:00	09:00	12s 47c	8s 16c	16	1.122	4
09:00	10:00	12s 45c	8s 11c	14	1.129	4
10:00	11:00	10s 31c	7s 89c	15	1.049	4
11:00	12:00	8s 16c	7s 74c	19	0.966	4
12:00	13:00	7s 79c	7s 41c	20	0.941	4
13:00	14:00	7s 52c	5s 69c	24	0.946	4
14:00	15:00	8s 32c	6s 30c	21	0.932	3
15:00	16:00	8s 87c	6s 25c	17	0.989	3
16:00	17:00	9s 8c	6s 23c	19	1.033	3
17:00	18:00	8s 5c	6s 21c	17	0.952	3
18:00	19:00	6s 23c	6s 2c	21	0.833	3
19:00	20:00	6s 15c	6s	20	0.849	3
20:00	21:00	6s 3c	5s 94c	21	0.869	3
21:00	22:00	4s 58c	4s 42c	26	0.975	2
22:00	23:00	6s 84c	6s 70c	23	0.857	2
23:00	00:00	13s 12c	13s 6c	16	0.978	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/20074 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 Heavy Crocolisk Stew?: On PvP Horde EU, Heavy Crocolisk Stew is cheapest from 18:00 to 21:00 UTC (19:00 to 22:00 CET) and dearest from 05:00 to 08:00 UTC (06:00 to 09:00 CET). Buying in the cheap hours and selling in the dear ones returns about 149% 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.