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

Across Normal Horde EU, prices run cheapest around 18:00 UTC (19:00 CET), 4.3% under the daily average, and dearest around 09:00 UTC (10:00 CET), 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 Normal 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 Normal Horde EU, Furlfeather Ring is cheapest from 04:00 to 07:00 UTC (05:00 to 08:00 CET) and dearest from 17:00 to 20:00 UTC (18:00 to 21:00 CET). Buying in the cheap hours and selling in the dear ones returns about 63% after the 5 percent cut.

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

04:00 to 07:00 UTC

05:00 to 08:00 CET · index 0.858 · typical 76s 14c

Best hours to sell

17:00 to 20:00 UTC

18:00 to 21:00 CET · index 1.159 · typical 1g 17s 62c

Spread after the 5% cut

+63%

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.

Furlfeather Ringby hour · Normal Horde EU

Hour (UTC)	CET	Typical	Lowest	Listings	Index	Days
00:00	01:00	1g 32s 75c	1g 11s	12	1.035	4
01:00	02:00	97s 61c	90s 17c	15	0.935	6
02:00	03:00	56s 67c	48s 67c	11	0.968	3
03:00	04:00	55s	47s 50c	14	0.870	4
04:00	05:00	92s 57c	86s 71c	9	0.908	7
05:00	06:00	58s 64c	51s 14c	8	0.838	7
06:00	07:00	77s 20c	68s 44c	7	0.828	9
07:00	08:00	62s 88c	47s 75c	9	0.995	4
08:00	09:00	75s 91c	59s 33c	7	0.847	9
09:00	10:00	78s 77c	62s	6	0.889	8
10:00	11:00	76s 13c	58s	7	0.875	8
11:00	12:00	93s 62c	69s 83c	6	0.929	6
12:00	13:00	83s 7c	51s 25c	7	1.023	8
13:00	14:00	85s 96c	67s 22c	7	1.197	9
14:00	15:00	88s	61s	7	1.032	7
15:00	16:00	69s 4c	54s 29c	8	1.128	7
16:00	17:00	80s 53c	77s 8c	6	0.960	9
17:00	18:00	81s 48c	75s 62c	9	1.077	8
18:00	19:00	1g 40s 6c	77s 50c	8	1.211	6
19:00	20:00	1g 31s 33c	92s 22c	9	1.190	9
20:00	21:00	1g 11s 28c	90s 33c	10	1.062	9
21:00	22:00	1g 12s 14c	91s 71c	12	1.022	7
22:00	23:00	1g 2s 91c	92s 37c	11	0.993	8
23:00	00:00	1g 16s 67c	82s 50c	9	1.186	8

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.horde.eu/286745 on the API.

The whole market by hour · Normal Horde EU

Hour (UTC)	CET	Price index	Listings index	Days
00:00	01:00	0.962	1.219	5
01:00	02:00	0.977	1.112	6
02:00	03:00	0.972	1.077	4
03:00	04:00	1.015	0.957	5
04:00	05:00	1.000	0.887	8
05:00	06:00	0.990	0.895	7
06:00	07:00	1.034	0.795	10
07:00	08:00	0.991	0.812	5
08:00	09:00	1.017	0.780	9
09:00	10:00	1.049	0.767	10
10:00	11:00	1.027	0.807	9
11:00	12:00	1.018	0.856	7
12:00	13:00	1.012	0.907	9
13:00	14:00	1.021	0.972	10
14:00	15:00	1.020	0.993	9
15:00	16:00	1.001	1.041	9
16:00	17:00	0.999	1.106	9
17:00	18:00	1.008	1.071	8
18:00	19:00	0.957	1.144	7
19:00	20:00	0.989	1.078	9
20:00	21:00	0.981	1.177	9
21:00	22:00	0.983	1.167	8
22:00	23:00	0.976	1.247	8
23:00	00:00	1.001	1.134	8

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 Horde EU, prices run cheapest around 18:00 UTC (19:00 CET), 4.3% under the daily average, and dearest around 09:00 UTC (10:00 CET), 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 Furlfeather Ring?: On Normal Horde EU, Furlfeather Ring is cheapest from 04:00 to 07:00 UTC (05:00 to 08:00 CET) and dearest from 17:00 to 20:00 UTC (18:00 to 21:00 CET). Buying in the cheap hours and selling in the dear ones returns about 63% 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 Horde EU through the night fills the gaps.