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

Across PvP Horde US, prices run cheapest around 15:00 UTC (07:00 Pacific), 4.9% under the daily average, and dearest around 01:00 UTC (17:00 Pacific), 11.9% 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, Jungle Remedy is cheapest from 05:00 to 08:00 UTC (21:00 to 00:00 Pacific) and dearest from 01:00 to 04:00 UTC (17:00 to 20:00 Pacific). Buying in the cheap hours and selling in the dear ones returns about 53% 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

05:00 to 08:00 UTC

21:00 to 00:00 Pacific · index 0.854 · typical 13s 16c

Best hours to sell

01:00 to 04:00 UTC

17:00 to 20:00 Pacific · index 1.198 · typical 18s 91c

Spread after the 5% cut

+53%

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 1 day of scans behind it over the last 28 days. Read the windows as a hint, not a rule.

Jungle Remedyby hour · PvP Horde US

Hour (UTC)	Pacific	Typical	Lowest	Listings	Index	Days
00:00	16:00	14s 6c	12s 33c	54	0.932	2
01:00	17:00	23s 43c	18s 99c	24	1.249	1
02:00	18:00	16s 33c	11s 83c	35	1.184	2
03:00	19:00	16s 96c	11s 83c	33	1.161	2
04:00	20:00	12s 60c	11s 32c	40	0.851	2
05:00	21:00	11s 83c	10s 43c	45	0.800	2
06:00	22:00	16s 21c	15s 22c	32	0.940	3
07:00	23:00	11s 45c	9s 50c	51	0.822	2
08:00	00:00	14s 22c	13s 55c	26	0.878	3
09:00	01:00	14s 35c	11s 89c	30	0.898	3
10:00	02:00	13s 82c	11s 52c	31	0.886	3
11:00	03:00	13s 55c	13s 18c	31	0.892	3
12:00	04:00	17s 50c	17s	31	0.973	2
13:00	05:00	17s 50c	17s	33	0.973	2
14:00	06:00	17s 13c	16s 50c	35	0.963	2
15:00	07:00	17s	16s 50c	33	0.963	2
16:00	08:00	16s 72c	16s 44c	33	0.975	2
17:00	09:00	16s 50c	16s 44c	34	0.986	2
18:00	10:00	22s 88c	16s 44c	37	1.326	2
19:00	11:00	16s 48c	16s 33c	41	1.036	2
20:00	12:00	16s 44c	14s 83c	45	1.058	2
21:00	13:00	16s 44c	12s 33c	45	1.084	2
22:00	14:00	16s 37c	12s 33c	46	1.107	2
23:00	15:00	15s 58c	12s 33c	51	1.062	2

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/2633 on the API.

The whole market by hour · PvP Horde US

Hour (UTC)	Pacific	Price index	Listings index	Days
00:00	16:00	1.045	0.972	4
01:00	17:00	1.119	0.879	3
02:00	18:00	1.061	0.828	5
03:00	19:00	1.044	1.068	5
04:00	20:00	1.011	1.069	5
05:00	21:00	1.015	1.136	3
06:00	22:00	1.003	1.175	5
07:00	23:00	0.989	1.279	3
08:00	00:00	0.983	1.224	4
09:00	01:00	0.990	1.171	5
10:00	02:00	0.965	1.166	5
11:00	03:00	0.972	1.052	4
12:00	04:00	0.973	1.017	4
13:00	05:00	0.965	1.007	4
14:00	06:00	0.968	0.977	4
15:00	07:00	0.951	0.942	3
16:00	08:00	0.978	0.889	4
17:00	09:00	0.985	0.846	4
18:00	10:00	1.018	0.836	4
19:00	11:00	0.986	0.852	4
20:00	12:00	0.979	0.877	4
21:00	13:00	0.988	0.907	4
22:00	14:00	1.004	0.894	3
23:00	15:00	1.008	0.937	4

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 15:00 UTC (07:00 Pacific), 4.9% under the daily average, and dearest around 01:00 UTC (17:00 Pacific), 11.9% 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 Jungle Remedy?: On PvP Horde US, Jungle Remedy is cheapest from 05:00 to 08:00 UTC (21:00 to 00:00 Pacific) and dearest from 01:00 to 04:00 UTC (17:00 to 20:00 Pacific). Buying in the cheap hours and selling in the dear ones returns about 53% 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.