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, Coyote Meat is cheapest from 08:00 to 11:00 UTC (09:00 to 12:00 CET) and dearest from 16:00 to 19:00 UTC (17:00 to 20:00 CET). Buying in the cheap hours and selling in the dear ones returns about 157% 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

08:00 to 11:00 UTC

09:00 to 12:00 CET · index 0.856 · typical 20s 31c

Best hours to sell

16:00 to 19:00 UTC

17:00 to 20:00 CET · index 1.121 · typical 49s 51c

Spread after the 5% cut

+157%

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.

Coyote Meatby hour · PvP Horde EU

Hour (UTC)	CET	Typical	Lowest	Listings	Index	Days
00:00	01:00	42s 97c	41s 55c	13	1.092	3
01:00	02:00	42s 25c	26s 18c	15	1.081	3
02:00	03:00	42s 23c	23s 73c	18	1.102	3
03:00	04:00	34s 75c	22s 25c	11	1.007	3
04:00	05:00	34s 23c	22s 85c	16	0.870	2
05:00	06:00	14s 86c	12s 50c	5	1.050	1
06:00	07:00	32s 14c	20s 68c	10	0.999	2
07:00	08:00	30s 38c	17s 25c	12	1.007	3
08:00	09:00	20s 28c	18s 25c	14	0.831	3
09:00	10:00	20s 21c	18s 25c	11	0.862	3
10:00	11:00	20s 44c	18s 33c	11	0.874	3
11:00	12:00	39s 1c	38s 67c	9	0.905	4
12:00	13:00	19s 19c	18s 41c	10	0.895	3
13:00	14:00	22s 13c	21s 77c	18	0.892	2
14:00	15:00	22s 12c	20s 75c	18	0.931	2
15:00	16:00	22s 9c	21s 65c	14	0.977	2
16:00	17:00	53s 62c	46s 97c	11	1.252	3
17:00	18:00	47s 68c	46s 55c	8	1.059	3
18:00	19:00	47s 24c	46s 95c	14	1.054	3
19:00	20:00	47s 29c	42s 63c	15	1.089	3
20:00	21:00	47s 25c	42s 33c	14	1.138	3
21:00	22:00	18s 93c	13s 45c	22	1.001	2
22:00	23:00	55s 98c	55s 93c	17	0.997	2
23:00	00:00	42s 65c	41s 22c	16	1.036	3

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/2673 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 Coyote Meat?: On PvP Horde EU, Coyote Meat is cheapest from 08:00 to 11:00 UTC (09:00 to 12:00 CET) and dearest from 16:00 to 19:00 UTC (17:00 to 20:00 CET). Buying in the cheap hours and selling in the dear ones returns about 157% 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.