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

Across Normal Alliance EU, prices run cheapest around 18:00 UTC (19:00 CET), 5.2% under the daily average, and dearest around 02:00 UTC (03:00 CET), 6.5% 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 Normal Alliance 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 Normal Alliance EU, Stringy Wolf Meat is cheapest from 04:00 to 07:00 UTC (05:00 to 08:00 CET) and dearest from 15:00 to 18:00 UTC (16:00 to 19:00 CET). Buying in the cheap hours and selling in the dear ones returns about 96% after the 5 percent cut.

Current market: Normal Alliance EU. This browser opens every tool here until you pick another. Address for this market: ahledger.com/timing?market=forever/normal/alliance/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

04:00 to 07:00 UTC

05:00 to 08:00 CET · index 0.786 · typical 70c

Best hours to sell

15:00 to 18:00 UTC

16:00 to 19:00 CET · index 1.283 · typical 1s 25c

Spread after the 5% cut

+96%

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.

Stringy Wolf Meatby hour · Normal Alliance EU

Hour (UTC)	CET	Typical	Lowest	Listings	Index	Days
00:00	01:00	75c	66c	120	0.985	5
01:00	02:00	74c	51c	122	0.967	4
02:00	03:00	84c	52c	113	1.014	4
03:00	04:00	66c	53c	103	0.802	5
04:00	05:00	69c	60c	131	0.697	3
05:00	06:00	64c	54c	109	0.936	3
06:00	07:00	78c	68c	111	0.725	3
07:00	08:00	76c	67c	111	0.819	4
08:00	09:00	71c	62c	100	0.868	3
09:00	10:00	63c	45c	126	0.823	4
10:00	11:00	64c	51c	111	0.813	4
11:00	12:00	66c	35c	105	0.823	4
12:00	13:00	72c	55c	86	0.888	4
13:00	14:00	88c	57c	103	1.058	4
14:00	15:00	91c	57c	123	1.024	4
15:00	16:00	95c	54c	142	1.065	4
16:00	17:00	1s 67c	52c	134	1.593	4
17:00	18:00	1s 13c	56c	193	1.191	4
18:00	19:00	72c	50c	210	0.873	4
19:00	20:00	1s 61c	49c	216	1.487	3
20:00	21:00	74c	51c	187	0.880	4
21:00	22:00	1s 39c	52c	173	1.333	4
22:00	23:00	1s 34c	56c	179	1.485	3
23:00	00:00	72c	60c	141	0.850	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.normal.alliance.eu/2672 on the API.

The whole market by hour · Normal Alliance EU

Hour (UTC)	CET	Price index	Listings index	Days
00:00	01:00	0.990	1.189	5
01:00	02:00	1.016	1.186	4
02:00	03:00	1.065	1.100	4
03:00	04:00	1.020	1.041	5
04:00	05:00	1.001	1.064	3
05:00	06:00	1.038	0.759	3
06:00	07:00	1.015	0.961	3
07:00	08:00	1.016	0.937	4
08:00	09:00	1.014	0.760	3
09:00	10:00	1.023	0.775	4
10:00	11:00	1.016	0.818	4
11:00	12:00	1.009	0.879	4
12:00	13:00	1.012	0.916	4
13:00	14:00	0.997	0.968	4
14:00	15:00	1.007	1.010	4
15:00	16:00	0.976	1.040	4
16:00	17:00	0.991	1.007	4
17:00	18:00	0.959	1.096	4
18:00	19:00	0.948	1.135	4
19:00	20:00	0.980	1.017	3
20:00	21:00	0.956	1.135	4
21:00	22:00	0.967	1.134	4
22:00	23:00	0.993	1.062	3
23:00	00:00	0.992	1.011	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 Normal Alliance EU, prices run cheapest around 18:00 UTC (19:00 CET), 5.2% under the daily average, and dearest around 02:00 UTC (03:00 CET), 6.5% 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 Stringy Wolf Meat?: On Normal Alliance EU, Stringy Wolf Meat is cheapest from 04:00 to 07:00 UTC (05:00 to 08:00 CET) and dearest from 15:00 to 18:00 UTC (16:00 to 19:00 CET). Buying in the cheap hours and selling in the dear ones returns about 96% 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 Normal Alliance EU through the night fills the gaps.