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

Across PvP Horde EU, prices run cheapest around 01:00 UTC (02:00 CET), 3.6% under the daily average, and dearest around 04:00 UTC (05:00 CET), 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 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, Item 284382 is cheapest from 10:00 to 13:00 UTC (11:00 to 14:00 CET) and dearest from 21:00 to 00:00 UTC (22:00 to 01:00 CET). The gap between them does not cover the 5 percent cut, so this is a buying pattern, not a flip.

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

10:00 to 13:00 UTC

11:00 to 14:00 CET · index 0.961 · typical 26s 76c

Best hours to sell

21:00 to 00:00 UTC

22:00 to 01:00 CET · index 1.070 · typical 24s 78c

Spread after the 5% cut

-9%

buy at the cheap hours' lowest buyout, sell at the dear hours' typical price

Confidence

provisional

Provisional: the thinnest hour has 4 days of scans behind it over the last 28 days; 10 makes it settled.

Item 284382by hour · PvP Horde EU

Hour (UTC)	CET	Typical	Lowest	Listings	Index	Days
00:00	01:00	26s 7c	25s 17c	10	1.006	6
01:00	02:00	29s 43c	28s 71c	8	1.015	7
02:00	03:00	25s 83c	24s 50c	10	1.007	6
03:00	04:00	25s 53c	24s 50c	7	1.003	6
04:00	05:00	28s 60c	27s 20c	5	1.025	5
05:00	06:00	29s 20c	28s 60c	4	1.013	5
06:00	07:00	29s 17c	28s 83c	4	1.003	6
07:00	08:00	30s 42c	30s 17c	4	1.007	6
08:00	09:00	30s 8c	29s 33c	5	1.004	6
09:00	10:00	25s 37c	25s	6	0.973	5
10:00	11:00	25s 20c	24s 20c	7	0.971	5
11:00	12:00	27s 58c	26s 83c	7	0.954	6
12:00	13:00	27s 50c	26s 67c	7	0.959	6
13:00	14:00	25s 20c	23s 80c	8	0.994	5
14:00	15:00	25s 5c	23s 80c	9	0.997	5
15:00	16:00	24s 44c	23s 60c	8	0.982	5
16:00	17:00	24s	23s 60c	9	0.971	5
17:00	18:00	24s 3c	23s 60c	7	0.979	5
18:00	19:00	23s 71c	23s 40c	9	0.969	5
19:00	20:00	23s 60c	23s 40c	9	0.971	5
20:00	21:00	23s 75c	23s 20c	9	0.986	5
21:00	22:00	24s 94c	20s 25c	11	1.227	4
22:00	23:00	23s 35c	22s	10	0.983	4
23:00	00:00	26s 6c	25s 17c	10	0.999	6

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/284382 on the API.

The whole market by hour · PvP Horde EU

Hour (UTC)	CET	Price index	Listings index	Days
00:00	01:00	0.986	1.138	7
01:00	02:00	0.964	1.158	7
02:00	03:00	0.968	1.165	6
03:00	04:00	0.991	0.995	6
04:00	05:00	1.090	0.749	6
05:00	06:00	0.999	0.992	5
06:00	07:00	1.006	0.964	6
07:00	08:00	1.019	0.792	6
08:00	09:00	0.997	0.880	7
09:00	10:00	1.011	0.855	7
10:00	11:00	0.996	0.917	7
11:00	12:00	1.004	0.946	7
12:00	13:00	0.986	0.985	7
13:00	14:00	1.009	0.954	7
14:00	15:00	0.989	1.005	7
15:00	16:00	0.987	0.996	7
16:00	17:00	1.020	1.060	7
17:00	18:00	1.000	0.997	7
18:00	19:00	0.980	1.077	6
19:00	20:00	0.994	1.072	6
20:00	21:00	0.997	1.039	7
21:00	22:00	1.012	1.033	6
22:00	23:00	1.010	1.151	5
23:00	00:00	0.985	1.078	7

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 01:00 UTC (02:00 CET), 3.6% under the daily average, and dearest around 04:00 UTC (05:00 CET), 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 Item 284382?: On PvP Horde EU, Item 284382 is cheapest from 10:00 to 13:00 UTC (11:00 to 14:00 CET) and dearest from 21:00 to 00:00 UTC (22:00 to 01:00 CET). The gap between them does not cover the 5 percent cut, so this is a buying pattern, not a flip.
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.