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 US, Thicket Bindings is cheapest from 22:00 to 01:00 UTC (14:00 to 17:00 Pacific) and dearest from 03:00 to 06:00 UTC (19:00 to 22:00 Pacific). The gap between them does not cover the 5 percent cut, so this is a buying pattern, not a flip.
Current market: PvP Horde US. This browser opens every tool here until you pick another. Address for this market: ahledger.com/timing?market=forever/pvp/horde/us
Item
Best hours to buy
22:00 to 01:00 UTC
14:00 to 17:00 Pacific · index 0.797 · typical 5g 53s 81c
Best hours to sell
03:00 to 06:00 UTC
19:00 to 22:00 Pacific · index 1.122 · typical 5g 67s 30c
Spread after the 5% cut
0%
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.
Thicket Bindingsby hour · PvP Horde US
| Hour (UTC) | Pacific | Typical | Lowest | Listings | Index | Days |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 00:00 | 6g 61s 42c | 6g 50s | 0.732 | |||
| 01:00 | 7g 92s 3c | 7g 56s 60c | 0.841 | |||
| 02:00 | 6g 58s | 6g 39s 29c | 0.874 | |||
| 03:00 | 7g 44s 39c | 6g 28s 86c | 1.133 | |||
| 04:00 | 6g 38s 40c | 5g 73s 57c | 1.097 | |||
| 05:00 | 3g 19s 12c | 2g 18s 40c | 1.136 | |||
| 06:00 | 6g 15s 73c | 5g 88s 99c | 1.060 | |||
| 07:00 | 6g 14s 33c | 6g 12s 33c | 1.011 | |||
| 08:00 | 2g 92s 51c | 2g 83s 33c | 1.035 | |||
| 09:00 | 5g 96s 43c | 5g 91s 42c | 1.018 | |||
| 10:00 | 6g 17s 82c | 5g 80s 85c | 1.107 | |||
| 11:00 | 5g 96s 28c | 5g 80s 56c | 1.021 | |||
| 12:00 | 2g 90s 16c | 2g 73s 66c | 1.044 | |||
| 13:00 | 3g 6s 9c | 2g 86s 39c | 1.056 | |||
| 14:00 | 2g 88s 19c | 2g 84s 99c | 1.025 | |||
| 15:00 | 2g 87s 86c | 2g 77s 59c | 1.013 | |||
| 16:00 | 2g 56s 93c | 2g 10s 15c | 0.917 | |||
| 17:00 | 3g 52s 89c | 2g 11s 58c | 1.320 | |||
| 18:00 | 2g 77s 90c | 2g 22s 98c | 1.014 | |||
| 19:00 | 2g 50s 20c | 2g 14s 20c | 0.998 | |||
| 20:00 | 2g 39s 96c | 2g 5s 60c | 0.966 | |||
| 21:00 | 2g 24s 20c | 1g 93s | 0.920 | |||
| 22:00 | 2g 8s 58c | 1g 92s 25c | 0.792 | |||
| 23:00 | 7g 91s 44c | 7g 75s 40c | 0.867 |
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.us/286985 on the API.
The whole market by hour · PvP Horde US
| Hour (UTC) | Pacific | Price index | Listings index | Days |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 00:00 | 1.020 | 1.028 | 7 | |
| 01:00 | 1.018 | 1.031 | 6 | |
| 02:00 | 1.011 | 1.016 | 8 | |
| 03:00 | 1.005 | 1.062 | 8 | |
| 04:00 | 0.983 | 1.087 | 8 | |
| 05:00 | 0.972 | 1.135 | 6 | |
| 06:00 | 0.977 | 1.101 | 8 | |
| 07:00 | 0.981 | 1.140 | 6 | |
| 08:00 | 1.009 | 1.088 | 7 | |
| 09:00 | 1.030 | 0.991 | 8 | |
| 10:00 | 1.004 | 1.021 | 8 | |
| 11:00 | 0.969 | 1.006 | 8 | |
| 12:00 | 0.990 | 0.955 | 8 | |
| 13:00 | 0.962 | 0.974 | 8 | |
| 14:00 | 0.978 | 0.953 | 8 | |
| 15:00 | 0.993 | 0.935 | 7 | |
| 16:00 | 1.027 | 0.913 | 8 | |
| 17:00 | 1.020 | 0.965 | 7 | |
| 18:00 | 1.030 | 0.937 | 8 | |
| 19:00 | 0.995 | 0.900 | 7 | |
| 20:00 | 1.004 | 0.921 | 7 | |
| 21:00 | 1.019 | 0.910 | 7 | |
| 22:00 | 1.000 | 0.944 | 6 | |
| 23:00 | 1.003 | 0.988 | 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 US, prices run cheapest around 13:00 UTC (05:00 Pacific), 3.8% under the daily average, and dearest around 09:00 UTC (01:00 Pacific), 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 Thicket Bindings?
- On PvP Horde US, Thicket Bindings is cheapest from 22:00 to 01:00 UTC (14:00 to 17:00 Pacific) and dearest from 03:00 to 06:00 UTC (19:00 to 22:00 Pacific). The gap between them does not cover the 5 percent cut, so this is a buying pattern, not a flip.
- 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 US through the night fills the gaps.