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

Across Normal Horde US, prices run cheapest around 07:00 UTC (23:00 Pacific), 2.1% under the daily average, and dearest around 17:00 UTC (09:00 Pacific), 7.3% 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 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 Normal Horde US, Snarlsnout Shooter is cheapest from 22:00 to 01:00 UTC (14:00 to 17:00 Pacific) and dearest from 01:00 to 04:00 UTC (17:00 to 20:00 Pacific). Buying in the cheap hours and selling in the dear ones returns about 33% after the 5 percent cut.

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

22:00 to 01:00 UTC

14:00 to 17:00 Pacific · index 0.921 · typical 21s 80c

Best hours to sell

01:00 to 04:00 UTC

17:00 to 20:00 Pacific · index 1.114 · typical 25s 66c

Spread after the 5% cut

+33%

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

Confidence

provisional

Provisional: the thinnest hour has 5 days of scans behind it over the last 28 days; 10 makes it settled.

Snarlsnout Shooterby hour · Normal Horde US

Hour (UTC)	Pacific	Typical	Lowest	Listings	Index	Days
00:00	16:00	22s 56c	19s	10	0.957	10
01:00	17:00	26s 6c	23s 11c	8	1.138	9
02:00	18:00	24s	15s 56c	11	1.016	9
03:00	19:00	26s 91c	16s 43c	8	1.187	7
04:00	20:00	17s 41c	16s 1c	7	1.032	8
05:00	21:00	22s 73c	12s 10c	11	1.001	9
06:00	22:00	25s	18s 41c	11	1.050	7
07:00	23:00	23s 57c	21s 98c	14	1.056	7
08:00	00:00	24s	22s 57c	13	1.051	7
09:00	01:00	20s 67c	19s 33c	9	1.026	6
10:00	02:00	21s 80c	19s 60c	11	1.091	5
11:00	03:00	19s 31c	13s 38c	10	0.944	8
12:00	04:00	21s 71c	16s 50c	10	0.958	7
13:00	05:00	19s 19c	17s 86c	9	0.885	7
14:00	06:00	19s 77c	18s 62c	10	0.969	8
15:00	07:00	21s	18s	12	0.960	7
16:00	08:00	20s 58c	19s 67c	10	0.849	6
17:00	09:00	24s 13c	15s 67c	8	0.991	6
18:00	10:00	23s 17c	14s 5c	9	1.057	9
19:00	11:00	17s 25c	12s 75c	10	0.867	10
20:00	12:00	26s 70c	22s 94c	10	1.088	10
21:00	13:00	28s 4c	21s 38c	11	1.020	8
22:00	14:00	24s 20c	21s 34c	10	0.956	9
23:00	15:00	18s 64c	14s 48c	10	0.851	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.normal.horde.us/286753 on the API.

The whole market by hour · Normal Horde US

Hour (UTC)	Pacific	Price index	Listings index	Days
00:00	16:00	0.993	1.060	10
01:00	17:00	1.026	0.998	9
02:00	18:00	0.984	1.043	8
03:00	19:00	0.989	1.050	7
04:00	20:00	0.982	1.093	8
05:00	21:00	0.990	1.136	9
06:00	22:00	0.992	1.107	7
07:00	23:00	0.979	1.136	8
08:00	00:00	0.985	1.116	8
09:00	01:00	1.065	0.999	7
10:00	02:00	0.990	1.037	5
11:00	03:00	0.984	0.972	8
12:00	04:00	1.013	0.835	8
13:00	05:00	0.981	0.896	7
14:00	06:00	1.002	0.816	8
15:00	07:00	0.991	0.826	7
16:00	08:00	1.012	0.862	6
17:00	09:00	1.073	0.837	7
18:00	10:00	0.997	0.891	9
19:00	11:00	0.992	0.924	10
20:00	12:00	1.003	0.965	10
21:00	13:00	0.998	1.040	8
22:00	14:00	0.996	1.166	9
23:00	15:00	0.984	1.195	6

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 US, prices run cheapest around 07:00 UTC (23:00 Pacific), 2.1% under the daily average, and dearest around 17:00 UTC (09:00 Pacific), 7.3% 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 Snarlsnout Shooter?: On Normal Horde US, Snarlsnout Shooter is cheapest from 22:00 to 01:00 UTC (14:00 to 17:00 Pacific) and dearest from 01:00 to 04:00 UTC (17:00 to 20:00 Pacific). Buying in the cheap hours and selling in the dear ones returns about 33% 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 US through the night fills the gaps.