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), 6.2% under the daily average, and dearest around 04:00 UTC (05:00 CET), 14.7% 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 285100 is cheapest from 08:00 to 11:00 UTC (09:00 to 12:00 CET) and dearest from 22:00 to 01:00 UTC (23:00 to 02:00 CET). Buying in the cheap hours and selling in the dear ones returns about 69% 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

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Item

Best hours to buy

08:00 to 11:00 UTC

09:00 to 12:00 CET · index 0.899 · typical 1g 90s 20c

Best hours to sell

22:00 to 01:00 UTC

23:00 to 02:00 CET · index 1.072 · typical 3g 34s 60c

Spread after the 5% cut

+69%

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.

Item 285100by hour · PvP Horde EU

Hour (UTC)	CET	Typical	Lowest	Listings	Index	Days
00:00	01:00	3g 46s 25c	3g 21s	3	1.058	4
01:00	02:00	3g 46s 10c	3g 21s	3	1.060	4
02:00	03:00	3g 46s	3g 20s 75c	3	1.059	4
03:00	04:00	3g 21s 25c	2g 96s 25c	2	1.008	4
04:00	05:00	2g 59s 25c	2g 8s 50c	4	1.017	2
05:00	06:00	1g 66s	1g 66s	2	1.026	1
06:00	07:00	2g 18s	1g 93s	2	0.945	2
07:00	08:00	2g 34s	1g 95s	3	0.977	2
08:00	09:00	1g 99s 67c	1g 95s	3	0.860	2
09:00	10:00	1g 87s 60c	1g 85s 67c	2	0.928	3
10:00	11:00	1g 83s 33c	1g 83s 33c	2	0.909	3
11:00	12:00	1g 59s 13c	1g 41s 50c	4	0.941	2
12:00	13:00	1g 63s 50c	1g 63s 50c	4	0.973	2
13:00	14:00	1g 63s 50c	1g 62s 50c	4	0.979	2
14:00	15:00	2g 41s 89c	2g 41s 33c	3	1.208	3
15:00	16:00	1g 74s 67c	1g 74s 67c	4	0.944	3
16:00	17:00	1g 74s 61c	1g 71s 33c	5	0.955	3
17:00	18:00	1g 75s 33c	1g 74s	3	0.969	3
18:00	19:00	1g 83s 19c	1g 83s	5	0.949	2
19:00	20:00	2g 63s 67c	2g 63s 67c	4	1.016	3
20:00	21:00	2g 73s 24c	2g 63s 33c	4	1.084	3
21:00	22:00	1g 83s	1g 82s 50c	6	0.976	2
22:00	23:00	3g 10s 75c	3g 9s 50c	3	1.102	2
23:00	00:00	3g 46s 81c	3g 46s 25c	3	1.057	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.eu/285100 on the API.

The whole market by hour · PvP Horde EU

Hour (UTC)	CET	Price index	Listings index	Days
00:00	01:00	0.997	1.082	5
01:00	02:00	0.969	1.025	5
02:00	03:00	0.965	1.050	4
03:00	04:00	1.004	0.850	4
04:00	05:00	1.147	0.835	4
05:00	06:00	0.998	0.815	3
06:00	07:00	1.023	0.811	4
07:00	08:00	1.019	0.764	5
08:00	09:00	1.013	0.841	6
09:00	10:00	1.041	0.811	6
10:00	11:00	1.016	0.906	6
11:00	12:00	1.025	0.942	6
12:00	13:00	1.003	0.999	6
13:00	14:00	1.006	1.073	6
14:00	15:00	1.003	1.088	6
15:00	16:00	0.970	1.162	6
16:00	17:00	0.995	1.208	6
17:00	18:00	0.975	1.113	6
18:00	19:00	0.949	1.149	4
19:00	20:00	0.938	1.140	4
20:00	21:00	0.977	1.095	5
21:00	22:00	0.956	1.107	4
22:00	23:00	1.023	1.103	3
23:00	00:00	0.988	1.029	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), 6.2% under the daily average, and dearest around 04:00 UTC (05:00 CET), 14.7% 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 285100?: On PvP Horde EU, Item 285100 is cheapest from 08:00 to 11:00 UTC (09:00 to 12:00 CET) and dearest from 22:00 to 01:00 UTC (23:00 to 02:00 CET). Buying in the cheap hours and selling in the dear ones returns about 69% 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.