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), 3.4% 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, Recipe: Swiftness Potion is cheapest from 23:00 to 02:00 UTC (15:00 to 18:00 Pacific) and dearest from 12:00 to 15:00 UTC (04:00 to 07:00 Pacific). Buying in the cheap hours and selling in the dear ones returns about 452% 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

23:00 to 02:00 UTC

15:00 to 18:00 Pacific · index 0.708 · typical 12s 24c

Best hours to sell

12:00 to 15:00 UTC

04:00 to 07:00 Pacific · index 1.198 · typical 49s 55c

Spread after the 5% cut

+452%

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.

Recipe: Swiftness Potionby hour · PvP Horde US

Hour (UTC)	Pacific	Typical	Lowest	Listings	Index	Days
00:00	16:00	12s 75c	9s 50c	71	0.677	4
01:00	17:00	11s 6c	8s 67c	88	0.614	3
02:00	18:00	14s 58c	7s 17c	78	1.312	6
03:00	19:00	12s 12c	6s 67c	89	0.852	6
04:00	20:00	11s 93c	6s 67c	94	0.758	6
05:00	21:00	21s 17c	10s 50c	71	0.883	4
06:00	22:00	23s 25c	16s 33c	87	1.047	6
07:00	23:00	32s 55c	17s 75c	65	1.158	4
08:00	00:00	30s 12c	14s	83	1.005	5
09:00	01:00	26s 56c	13s	82	1.006	6
10:00	02:00	23s 17c	14s 50c	73	0.996	6
11:00	03:00	17s 44c	12s	81	0.944	5
12:00	04:00	55s 43c	48s 50c	54	1.342	6
13:00	05:00	51s 65c	24s 67c	56	1.258	6
14:00	06:00	41s 56c	21s 50c	55	0.995	6
15:00	07:00	35s 9c	26s	55	0.967	5
16:00	08:00	28s 87c	20s 67c	46	1.200	6
17:00	09:00	13s 48c	8s 60c	44	0.933	5
18:00	10:00	13s 31c	8s 20c	44	0.983	5
19:00	11:00	14s 62c	8s	48	1.176	5
20:00	12:00	14s 60c	9s 40c	52	1.136	5
21:00	13:00	13s 86c	9s	57	1.001	5
22:00	14:00	17s 25c	11s 25c	44	0.926	4
23:00	15:00	12s 90c	7s 40c	69	0.832	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/2555 on the API.

The whole market by hour · PvP Horde US

Hour (UTC)	Pacific	Price index	Listings index	Days
00:00	16:00	0.984	1.017	5
01:00	17:00	1.023	0.978	4
02:00	18:00	1.037	0.937	6
03:00	19:00	1.023	1.012	6
04:00	20:00	0.980	1.059	6
05:00	21:00	0.972	1.088	4
06:00	22:00	0.966	1.127	6
07:00	23:00	1.012	1.120	4
08:00	00:00	1.040	1.060	5
09:00	01:00	1.053	1.022	6
10:00	02:00	0.998	1.064	6
11:00	03:00	0.993	1.037	6
12:00	04:00	0.993	1.033	6
13:00	05:00	0.991	1.018	6
14:00	06:00	0.994	1.011	6
15:00	07:00	0.995	0.999	5
16:00	08:00	0.995	0.972	6
17:00	09:00	0.993	0.873	5
18:00	10:00	1.038	0.877	5
19:00	11:00	1.005	0.898	5
20:00	12:00	0.993	0.936	5
21:00	13:00	0.978	0.963	5
22:00	14:00	0.970	0.921	4
23:00	15:00	0.977	0.979	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), 3.4% 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 Recipe: Swiftness Potion?: On PvP Horde US, Recipe: Swiftness Potion is cheapest from 23:00 to 02:00 UTC (15:00 to 18:00 Pacific) and dearest from 12:00 to 15:00 UTC (04:00 to 07:00 Pacific). Buying in the cheap hours and selling in the dear ones returns about 452% 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.