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), 4.4% under the daily average, and dearest around 04:00 UTC (05:00 CET), 7.8% 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, Rotmender's Garb is cheapest from 18:00 to 21:00 UTC (19:00 to 22:00 CET) and dearest from 04:00 to 07:00 UTC (05:00 to 08:00 CET). Buying in the cheap hours and selling in the dear ones returns about 131% 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

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

18:00 to 21:00 UTC

19:00 to 22:00 CET · index 0.784 · typical 37s 86c

Best hours to sell

04:00 to 07:00 UTC

05:00 to 08:00 CET · index 1.223 · typical 61s 15c

Spread after the 5% cut

+131%

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.

Rotmender's Garbby hour · PvP Horde EU

Hour (UTC)	CET	Typical	Lowest	Listings	Index	Days
00:00	01:00	45s 14c	34s	38	0.999	7
01:00	02:00	43s 25c	32s 57c	40	0.966	7
02:00	03:00	63s 50c	44s 50c	39	1.209	6
03:00	04:00	63s 22c	43s 67c	35	1.196	6
04:00	05:00	53s 70c	46s 40c	24	1.215	5
05:00	06:00	61s 73c	50s 60c	31	1.114	5
06:00	07:00	68s 2c	46s 33c	31	1.339	6
07:00	08:00	52s 41c	41s 29c	32	1.083	7
08:00	09:00	55s 35c	40s 88c	28	1.119	8
09:00	10:00	54s 56c	39s 38c	29	1.074	8
10:00	11:00	48s 40c	37s 38c	37	0.969	8
11:00	12:00	47s 80c	33s	43	0.957	8
12:00	13:00	42s 31c	33s 88c	43	0.860	8
13:00	14:00	41s 55c	30s 38c	44	0.848	8
14:00	15:00	40s 36c	26s 50c	50	0.814	8
15:00	16:00	39s 62c	28s	51	0.796	8
16:00	17:00	44s 59c	27s 88c	55	0.889	8
17:00	18:00	44s 70c	25s 43c	44	0.883	7
18:00	19:00	36s 43c	25s 67c	58	0.760	6
19:00	20:00	40s 31c	27s 33c	51	0.833	6
20:00	21:00	36s 83c	22s 29c	44	0.758	7
21:00	22:00	65s 44c	52s 67c	36	1.201	6
22:00	23:00	45s 23c	22s 80c	38	0.980	5
23:00	00:00	52s 97c	25s 86c	31	1.138	7

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/286978 on the API.

The whole market by hour · PvP Horde EU

Hour (UTC)	CET	Price index	Listings index	Days
00:00	01:00	0.982	1.109	7
01:00	02:00	0.956	1.111	7
02:00	03:00	0.961	1.106	6
03:00	04:00	0.987	0.916	6
04:00	05:00	1.078	0.743	6
05:00	06:00	0.980	0.883	5
06:00	07:00	0.999	0.855	6
07:00	08:00	1.010	0.783	7
08:00	09:00	1.018	0.833	8
09:00	10:00	1.033	0.818	8
10:00	11:00	0.993	0.906	8
11:00	12:00	1.014	0.948	8
12:00	13:00	0.997	1.011	8
13:00	14:00	1.015	1.016	8
14:00	15:00	1.000	1.087	8
15:00	16:00	1.000	1.113	8
16:00	17:00	1.026	1.204	8
17:00	18:00	0.994	1.003	7
18:00	19:00	0.971	1.095	6
19:00	20:00	0.989	1.104	6
20:00	21:00	0.991	1.060	7
21:00	22:00	1.015	1.055	6
22:00	23:00	1.009	1.162	5
23:00	00:00	0.982	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), 4.4% under the daily average, and dearest around 04:00 UTC (05:00 CET), 7.8% 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 Rotmender's Garb?: On PvP Horde EU, Rotmender's Garb is cheapest from 18:00 to 21:00 UTC (19:00 to 22:00 CET) and dearest from 04:00 to 07:00 UTC (05:00 to 08:00 CET). Buying in the cheap hours and selling in the dear ones returns about 131% 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.