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), 2.6% under the daily average, and dearest around 17:00 UTC (09:00 Pacific), 9.2% 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, Roused Nature Footwraps is cheapest from 15:00 to 18:00 UTC (07:00 to 10:00 Pacific) and dearest from 06:00 to 09:00 UTC (22:00 to 01:00 Pacific). Buying in the cheap hours and selling in the dear ones returns about 74% 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

15:00 to 18:00 UTC

07:00 to 10:00 Pacific · index 0.781 · typical 2g 74s 98c

Best hours to sell

06:00 to 09:00 UTC

22:00 to 01:00 Pacific · index 1.429 · typical 4g 93s 83c

Spread after the 5% cut

+74%

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

Confidence

provisional

Provisional: the thinnest hour has 3 days of scans behind it over the last 28 days; 10 makes it settled.

Roused Nature Footwrapsby hour · Normal Horde US

Hour (UTC)	Pacific	Typical	Lowest	Listings	Index	Days
00:00	16:00	3g 8s 72c	2g 76s 95c	4	0.952	6
01:00	17:00	3g 82s 50c	3g 75s 60c	3	1.069	5
02:00	18:00	4g 18s 50c	3g 80s	5	1.036	4
03:00	19:00	3g 78s 40c	3g 47s 60c	4	1.061	5
04:00	20:00	3g 23s	3g 7s	4	1.020	4
05:00	21:00	3g 29s 87c	2g 78s 83c	4	0.926	6
06:00	22:00	7g 88s 31c	7g	5	2.317	4
07:00	23:00	3g 62s 97c	3g 16s 60c	4	1.016	5
08:00	00:00	3g 30s 20c	2g 93s	4	0.955	5
09:00	01:00	2g 79s 63c	2g 54s 50c	3	0.976	4
10:00	02:00	2g 21s 25c	2g 8s 50c	2	0.853	4
11:00	03:00	3g 16s	2g 97s 25c	4	0.801	4
12:00	04:00	3g 16s	2g 47s 25c	4	0.818	4
13:00	05:00	3g 9s 75c	2g 96s	4	0.790	4
14:00	06:00	2g 90s 92c	2g 72s 25c	3	0.855	4
15:00	07:00	2g 73s 50c	2g 72s 25c	4	0.828	4
16:00	08:00	2g 76s 10c	2g 66s	3	0.808	5
17:00	09:00	2g 75s 33c	2g 70s 23c	4	0.705	3
18:00	10:00	3g 35s 25c	3g 27s 75c	5	1.015	4
19:00	11:00	3g 8s 20c	3g 2s 20c	4	1.136	5
20:00	12:00	3g 14s 70c	3g 8s	4	1.144	5
21:00	13:00	3g 44s	3g 32s 50c	4	1.064	4
22:00	14:00	2g 52s 67c	2g 36s 67c	4	0.777	6
23:00	15:00	3g 76s 79c	3g 17s	5	1.080	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/286991 on the API.

The whole market by hour · Normal Horde US

Hour (UTC)	Pacific	Price index	Listings index	Days
00:00	16:00	0.976	1.033	8
01:00	17:00	1.013	1.036	7
02:00	18:00	0.981	1.063	7
03:00	19:00	0.992	1.027	6
04:00	20:00	0.988	1.074	7
05:00	21:00	0.986	1.123	8
06:00	22:00	0.993	1.069	6
07:00	23:00	0.992	1.111	7
08:00	00:00	0.979	1.126	7
09:00	01:00	1.089	0.950	6
10:00	02:00	0.988	1.032	4
11:00	03:00	0.995	0.969	7
12:00	04:00	1.007	0.861	7
13:00	05:00	0.979	0.888	6
14:00	06:00	1.014	0.794	7
15:00	07:00	0.994	0.824	6
16:00	08:00	1.005	0.869	5
17:00	09:00	1.092	0.834	5
18:00	10:00	0.997	0.909	8
19:00	11:00	0.990	0.937	9
20:00	12:00	0.997	0.971	9
21:00	13:00	0.993	1.047	7
22:00	14:00	0.985	1.219	8
23:00	15:00	0.974	1.233	5

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), 2.6% under the daily average, and dearest around 17:00 UTC (09:00 Pacific), 9.2% 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 Roused Nature Footwraps?: On Normal Horde US, Roused Nature Footwraps is cheapest from 15:00 to 18:00 UTC (07:00 to 10:00 Pacific) and dearest from 06:00 to 09:00 UTC (22:00 to 01:00 Pacific). Buying in the cheap hours and selling in the dear ones returns about 74% 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.