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

Across PvP Horde US, prices run cheapest around 22:00 UTC (14:00 Pacific), 3.1% under the daily average, and dearest around 09:00 UTC (01:00 Pacific), 4.9% 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, Green Hills of Stranglethorn - Page 24 is cheapest from 11:00 to 14:00 UTC (03:00 to 06:00 Pacific) and dearest from 23:00 to 02:00 UTC (15:00 to 18:00 Pacific). Buying in the cheap hours and selling in the dear ones returns about 65% 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

11:00 to 14:00 UTC

03:00 to 06:00 Pacific · index 0.698 · typical 17s 77c

Best hours to sell

23:00 to 02:00 UTC

15:00 to 18:00 Pacific · index 1.567 · typical 26s 97c

Spread after the 5% cut

+65%

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

Green Hills of Stranglethorn - Page 24by hour · PvP Horde US

Hour (UTC)	Pacific	Typical	Lowest	Listings	Index	Days
00:00	16:00	36s 84c	17s 24c	190	2.293	3
01:00	17:00	12s 68c	8s 86c	236	0.951	2
02:00	18:00	27s 38c	15s 38c	164	1.268	4
03:00	19:00	18s 2c	13s 88c	165	0.970	4
04:00	20:00	15s 88c	11s 65c	211	0.815	4
05:00	21:00	14s 25c	8s 26c	277	0.839	3
06:00	22:00	13s 84c	8s 85c	234	0.726	4
07:00	23:00	11s 51c	5s 52c	273	0.759	3
08:00	00:00	13s 80c	7s 62c	182	0.835	4
09:00	01:00	12s 63c	6s 14c	165	0.823	4
10:00	02:00	19s 50c	15s 90c	130	0.811	5
11:00	03:00	18s 95c	15s 79c	115	0.773	5
12:00	04:00	17s 70c	15s 80c	106	0.683	5
13:00	05:00	16s 65c	14s 99c	92	0.639	5
14:00	06:00	20s 13c	14s 78c	78	0.797	5
15:00	07:00	25s 64c	16s 9c	76	1.068	5
16:00	08:00	28s 44c	17s 9c	79	1.236	5
17:00	09:00	27s 97c	19s 62c	79	1.040	4
18:00	10:00	30s 24c	21s 97c	78	1.270	4
19:00	11:00	28s 35c	21s 87c	88	1.168	4
20:00	12:00	24s 54c	20s 35c	105	0.984	4
21:00	13:00	23s 59c	19s 97c	121	0.957	4
22:00	14:00	21s 45c	11s 55c	112	0.838	4
23:00	15:00	31s 38c	8s 87c	126	1.458	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.pvp.horde.us/2748 on the API.

The whole market by hour · PvP Horde US

Hour (UTC)	Pacific	Price index	Listings index	Days
00:00	16:00	0.993	1.011	5
01:00	17:00	1.039	0.966	4
02:00	18:00	1.034	0.938	6
03:00	19:00	1.028	1.012	6
04:00	20:00	0.985	1.065	6
05:00	21:00	0.978	1.089	4
06:00	22:00	0.973	1.127	6
07:00	23:00	1.014	1.122	4
08:00	00:00	1.036	1.061	5
09:00	01:00	1.049	1.019	6
10:00	02:00	0.999	1.060	6
11:00	03:00	0.994	1.034	6
12:00	04:00	0.991	1.035	6
13:00	05:00	0.989	1.024	6
14:00	06:00	0.990	1.020	6
15:00	07:00	0.991	1.012	5
16:00	08:00	0.990	0.971	6
17:00	09:00	0.990	0.875	5
18:00	10:00	1.030	0.879	5
19:00	11:00	0.996	0.899	5
20:00	12:00	0.985	0.934	5
21:00	13:00	0.975	0.956	5
22:00	14:00	0.969	0.920	4
23:00	15:00	0.981	0.974	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 22:00 UTC (14:00 Pacific), 3.1% under the daily average, and dearest around 09:00 UTC (01:00 Pacific), 4.9% 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 Green Hills of Stranglethorn - Page 24?: On PvP Horde US, Green Hills of Stranglethorn - Page 24 is cheapest from 11:00 to 14:00 UTC (03:00 to 06:00 Pacific) and dearest from 23:00 to 02:00 UTC (15:00 to 18:00 Pacific). Buying in the cheap hours and selling in the dear ones returns about 65% 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.