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), 6.7% under the daily average, and dearest around 04:00 UTC (05:00 CET), 14.4% 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, Staff of the Blessed Seer is cheapest from 11:00 to 14:00 UTC (12:00 to 15:00 CET) and dearest from 19:00 to 22:00 UTC (20:00 to 23:00 CET). Buying in the cheap hours and selling in the dear ones returns about 82% 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

11:00 to 14:00 UTC

12:00 to 15:00 CET · index 0.837 · typical 1g 52s 67c

Best hours to sell

19:00 to 22:00 UTC

20:00 to 23:00 CET · index 1.223 · typical 2g 46s 88c

Spread after the 5% cut

+82%

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.

Staff of the Blessed Seerby hour · PvP Horde EU

Hour (UTC)	CET	Typical	Lowest	Listings	Index	Days
00:00	01:00	2g 3s 73c	1g 86s 20c	15	1.036	5
01:00	02:00	2g 2s 18c	1g 85s 40c	14	1.028	5
02:00	03:00	1g 57s 25c	1g 46s 50c	16	0.984	4
03:00	04:00	1g 59s 75c	1g 42s	13	1.007	4
04:00	05:00	2g 7s	1g 98s 33c	7	1.034	3
05:00	06:00	2g 44s	2g 24s	8	1.027	3
06:00	07:00	2g 14s 17c	1g 97s 25c	7	0.977	4
07:00	08:00	1g 78s 84c	1g 65s 20c	8	0.914	5
08:00	09:00	1g 66s 20c	1g 52s 20c	8	0.854	5
09:00	10:00	1g 65s 77c	1g 44s 80c	8	0.863	5
10:00	11:00	1g 63s 60c	1g 41s 40c	9	0.860	5
11:00	12:00	1g 63s 60c	1g 39s 80c	10	0.862	5
12:00	13:00	1g 55s 62c	1g 19s	11	0.838	5
13:00	14:00	1g 38s 78c	1g 27s 50c	10	0.811	4
14:00	15:00	1g 76s 13c	1g 67s 25c	11	1.058	4
15:00	16:00	1g 58s 83c	1g 49s 67c	12	1.080	3
16:00	17:00	1g 73s 33c	1g 57s 25c	12	1.035	4
17:00	18:00	1g 64s	1g 28s 50c	12	0.998	4
18:00	19:00	1g 52s 71c	1g 37s 67c	13	1.028	3
19:00	20:00	2g 53s 55c	2g 3s	11	1.261	4
20:00	21:00	2g 48s 8c	2g 25s 60c	10	1.248	5
21:00	22:00	2g 39s	2g 30s	9	1.161	4
22:00	23:00	2g 7s 72c	1g 92s 33c	12	0.981	3
23:00	00:00	2g 8s 33c	1g 88s 40c	13	1.054	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.eu/2271 on the API.

The whole market by hour · PvP Horde EU

Hour (UTC)	CET	Price index	Listings index	Days
00:00	01:00	0.980	1.070	5
01:00	02:00	0.956	1.013	5
02:00	03:00	0.959	1.037	4
03:00	04:00	0.998	0.847	4
04:00	05:00	1.144	0.810	4
05:00	06:00	1.000	0.846	3
06:00	07:00	1.046	0.822	4
07:00	08:00	1.033	0.786	5
08:00	09:00	1.036	0.895	6
09:00	10:00	1.057	0.881	6
10:00	11:00	1.019	1.004	6
11:00	12:00	1.032	1.037	6
12:00	13:00	1.005	1.126	6
13:00	14:00	1.008	1.021	5
14:00	15:00	0.986	1.063	5
15:00	16:00	0.965	1.058	5
16:00	17:00	1.008	1.096	5
17:00	18:00	0.987	0.936	5
18:00	19:00	0.947	1.148	4
19:00	20:00	0.933	1.141	4
20:00	21:00	0.972	1.108	5
21:00	22:00	0.940	1.108	4
22:00	23:00	1.017	1.115	3
23:00	00:00	0.972	1.032	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), 6.7% under the daily average, and dearest around 04:00 UTC (05:00 CET), 14.4% 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 Staff of the Blessed Seer?: On PvP Horde EU, Staff of the Blessed Seer is cheapest from 11:00 to 14:00 UTC (12:00 to 15:00 CET) and dearest from 19:00 to 22:00 UTC (20:00 to 23:00 CET). Buying in the cheap hours and selling in the dear ones returns about 82% 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.