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 Alliance US, Violet Sorcerer's Sandals is cheapest from 04:00 to 07:00 UTC (20:00 to 23:00 Pacific) and dearest from 12:00 to 15:00 UTC (04:00 to 07:00 Pacific). Buying in the cheap hours and selling in the dear ones returns about 148% after the 5 percent cut.
Current market: Normal Alliance US. This browser opens every tool here until you pick another. Address for this market: ahledger.com/timing?market=forever/normal/alliance/us
Item
Best hours to buy
04:00 to 07:00 UTC
20:00 to 23:00 Pacific · index 0.804 · typical 3g 32s 42c
Best hours to sell
12:00 to 15:00 UTC
04:00 to 07:00 Pacific · index 1.221 · typical 6g 75s 64c
Spread after the 5% cut
+148%
buy at the cheap hours' lowest buyout, sell at the dear hours' typical price
Confidence
Too early
Too early to trust: the thinnest hour has 2 days of scans behind it over the last 28 days. Read the windows as a hint, not a rule.
Violet Sorcerer's Sandalsby hour · Normal Alliance US
| Hour (UTC) | Pacific | Typical | Lowest | Listings | Index | Days |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 00:00 | 3g 37s 99c | 2g 49s 40c | 0.851 | |||
| 01:00 | 4g 30s 72c | 3g 67s | 0.955 | |||
| 02:00 | 3g 35s 28c | 2g 68s 67c | 0.895 | |||
| 03:00 | 3g 70s 39c | 3g 1s | 0.906 | |||
| 04:00 | 3g 30s 8c | 2g 57s 13c | 0.797 | |||
| 05:00 | 3g 7s 67c | 2g 39s 33c | 0.764 | |||
| 06:00 | 3g 59s 50c | 2g 79s 67c | 0.853 | |||
| 07:00 | 4g 61s 20c | 2g 90s 80c | 1.059 | |||
| 08:00 | 3g 56s 83c | 3g 24s 83c | 0.890 | |||
| 09:00 | 2g 74s | 2g 35s 50c | 0.996 | |||
| 10:00 | 8g 25s 33c | 8g 5s | 1.326 | |||
| 11:00 | 3g 11s 67c | 2g 95s 75c | 0.880 | |||
| 12:00 | 9g 41s | 9g 1s 67c | 1.454 | |||
| 13:00 | 5g 2s 48c | 3g 6s 14c | 1.043 | |||
| 14:00 | 5g 83s 43c | 4g 25s 57c | 1.167 | |||
| 15:00 | 6g 51s 13c | 2g 94s | 1.262 | |||
| 16:00 | 6g 30s 61c | 3g 58s 60c | 1.200 | |||
| 17:00 | 4g 37s 17c | 2g 98s 83c | 1.030 | |||
| 18:00 | 3g 96s 71c | 2g 78s 75c | 0.906 | |||
| 19:00 | 4g 6s 39c | 2g 96s 50c | 0.880 | |||
| 20:00 | 4g 21s 86c | 3g 62s 43c | 1.010 | |||
| 21:00 | 4g 12s 95c | 2g 42s 43c | 0.986 | |||
| 22:00 | 3g 7s 66c | 2g 30s 24c | 0.823 | |||
| 23:00 | 4g 69s 56c | 3g 60s 33c | 1.066 |
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.alliance.us/286987 on the API.
The whole market by hour · Normal Alliance US
| Hour (UTC) | Pacific | Price index | Listings index | Days |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 00:00 | 0.974 | 1.131 | 8 | |
| 01:00 | 0.988 | 1.075 | 8 | |
| 02:00 | 0.984 | 1.069 | 8 | |
| 03:00 | 1.002 | 1.058 | 8 | |
| 04:00 | 0.984 | 1.128 | 8 | |
| 05:00 | 0.967 | 1.121 | 8 | |
| 06:00 | 0.968 | 1.175 | 8 | |
| 07:00 | 0.988 | 1.006 | 7 | |
| 08:00 | 0.982 | 1.087 | 6 | |
| 09:00 | 0.969 | 1.054 | 3 | |
| 10:00 | 1.076 | 0.957 | 5 | |
| 11:00 | 1.010 | 0.948 | 6 | |
| 12:00 | 0.989 | 0.950 | 5 | |
| 13:00 | 1.006 | 0.891 | 7 | |
| 14:00 | 0.995 | 0.871 | 9 | |
| 15:00 | 1.003 | 0.867 | 7 | |
| 16:00 | 1.024 | 0.836 | 6 | |
| 17:00 | 1.029 | 0.869 | 8 | |
| 18:00 | 1.014 | 0.901 | 9 | |
| 19:00 | 1.049 | 0.897 | 8 | |
| 20:00 | 1.007 | 0.991 | 8 | |
| 21:00 | 0.995 | 1.028 | 8 | |
| 22:00 | 0.987 | 1.044 | 8 | |
| 23:00 | 1.011 | 1.046 | 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 Normal Alliance US, prices run cheapest around 05:00 UTC (21:00 Pacific), 3.3% under the daily average, and dearest around 10:00 UTC (02:00 Pacific), 7.6% 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 Violet Sorcerer's Sandals?
- On Normal Alliance US, Violet Sorcerer's Sandals is cheapest from 04:00 to 07:00 UTC (20:00 to 23:00 Pacific) and dearest from 12:00 to 15:00 UTC (04:00 to 07:00 Pacific). Buying in the cheap hours and selling in the dear ones returns about 148% 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 Alliance US through the night fills the gaps.