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

Across Normal Horde US, prices run cheapest around 23:00 UTC (15:00 Pacific), 4.4% under the daily average, and dearest around 09:00 UTC (01:00 Pacific), 10.1% 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, Rotmender's Gloves is cheapest from 05:00 to 08:00 UTC (21:00 to 00:00 Pacific) and dearest from 09:00 to 12:00 UTC (01:00 to 04:00 Pacific). Buying in the cheap hours and selling in the dear ones returns about 90% 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

05:00 to 08:00 UTC

21:00 to 00:00 Pacific · index 0.844 · typical 34s 23c

Best hours to sell

09:00 to 12:00 UTC

01:00 to 04:00 Pacific · index 1.235 · typical 48s 69c

Spread after the 5% cut

+90%

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.

Rotmender's Glovesby hour · Normal Horde US

Hour (UTC)	Pacific	Typical	Lowest	Listings	Index	Days
00:00	16:00	38s 75c	26s 63c	40	0.972	8
01:00	17:00	36s 88c	24s 17c	39	0.953	6
02:00	18:00	32s 95c	26s 50c	42	0.789	6
03:00	19:00	34s 30c	25s	42	0.845	5
04:00	20:00	36s 33c	21s 33c	43	0.917	6
05:00	21:00	33s 59c	22s 43c	39	0.845	7
06:00	22:00	34s 47c	25s 20c	31	0.816	5
07:00	23:00	34s 64c	25s 50c	38	0.872	6
08:00	00:00	33s 41c	25s 43c	36	0.849	7
09:00	01:00	69s 72c	57s 17c	26	1.846	6
10:00	02:00	33s 13c	23s 50c	40	0.877	4
11:00	03:00	43s 21c	29s 57c	27	0.980	7
12:00	04:00	44s 72c	31s 8c	28	0.980	6
13:00	05:00	42s 11c	31s	25	0.940	6
14:00	06:00	38s 39c	28s 57c	29	0.886	7
15:00	07:00	57s 83c	38s 33c	26	1.422	6
16:00	08:00	44s 43c	37s	24	1.063	5
17:00	09:00	49s 70c	31s 25c	24	1.099	4
18:00	10:00	42s 62c	26s 25c	29	1.043	8
19:00	11:00	44s 84c	35s 44c	27	1.064	9
20:00	12:00	37s 70c	27s 89c	35	0.905	9
21:00	13:00	39s 31c	28s 65c	32	0.958	6
22:00	14:00	31s 86c	21s 75c	41	0.846	7
23:00	15:00	48s 4c	29s 50c	24	1.232	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.normal.horde.us/286979 on the API.

The whole market by hour · Normal Horde US

Hour (UTC)	Pacific	Price index	Listings index	Days
00:00	16:00	0.974	1.041	8
01:00	17:00	1.015	1.033	7
02:00	18:00	0.983	1.058	7
03:00	19:00	0.991	1.027	6
04:00	20:00	0.984	1.071	7
05:00	21:00	0.987	1.109	8
06:00	22:00	0.995	1.054	6
07:00	23:00	0.986	1.097	7
08:00	00:00	0.974	1.122	7
09:00	01:00	1.101	0.958	6
10:00	02:00	0.993	1.046	4
11:00	03:00	0.999	0.991	7
12:00	04:00	1.022	0.883	7
13:00	05:00	0.991	0.913	6
14:00	06:00	1.025	0.826	7
15:00	07:00	1.009	0.868	6
16:00	08:00	1.003	0.929	5
17:00	09:00	1.083	0.924	5
18:00	10:00	0.992	0.982	8
19:00	11:00	0.994	0.892	8
20:00	12:00	0.991	0.924	8
21:00	13:00	0.991	0.977	6
22:00	14:00	0.962	1.159	7
23:00	15:00	0.956	1.115	4

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 23:00 UTC (15:00 Pacific), 4.4% under the daily average, and dearest around 09:00 UTC (01:00 Pacific), 10.1% 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 Gloves?: On Normal Horde US, Rotmender's Gloves is cheapest from 05:00 to 08:00 UTC (21:00 to 00:00 Pacific) and dearest from 09:00 to 12:00 UTC (01:00 to 04:00 Pacific). Buying in the cheap hours and selling in the dear ones returns about 90% 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.