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, Suffused Bindings is cheapest from 22:00 to 01:00 UTC (14:00 to 17:00 Pacific) and dearest from 07:00 to 10:00 UTC (23:00 to 02:00 Pacific). Buying in the cheap hours and selling in the dear ones returns about 64% 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

22:00 to 01:00 UTC

14:00 to 17:00 Pacific · index 0.765 · typical 2g 67s 69c

Best hours to sell

07:00 to 10:00 UTC

23:00 to 02:00 Pacific · index 1.231 · typical 4g 31s 78c

Spread after the 5% cut

+64%

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.

Suffused Bindingsby hour · Normal Horde US

Hour (UTC)	Pacific	Typical	Lowest	Listings	Index	Days
00:00	16:00	2g 86s 48c	2g 82s 57c	5	0.821	7
01:00	17:00	2g 65s	2g 56s 50c	4	0.828	6
02:00	18:00	2g 85s 72c	2g 67s 80c	5	0.803	5
03:00	19:00	2g 17s 90c	2g 7s 60c	4	0.788	5
04:00	20:00	3g 69s 99c	3g 68s 60c	3	1.091	5
05:00	21:00	3g 67s 50c	3g 62s 17c	5	1.074	6
06:00	22:00	4g 61s 20c	3g 97s	5	1.172	5
07:00	23:00	4g 28s 88c	3g 62s 50c	6	1.272	6
08:00	00:00	4g 26s 86c	3g 51s 43c	5	1.195	7
09:00	01:00	4g 39s 60c	3g 39s 40c	4	1.227	5
10:00	02:00	4g 24s 50c	3g 49s 25c	4	1.167	4
11:00	03:00	4g 75s	3g 99s 60c	6	1.248	5
12:00	04:00	5g 18s 40c	4g 40s 80c	5	1.262	5
13:00	05:00	4g 8s 20c	3g 99s 60c	4	1.107	5
14:00	06:00	4g 3s	3g 26s 80c	5	1.067	5
15:00	07:00	3g 21s 80c	2g 63s 60c	5	1.081	5
16:00	08:00	3g 49s	3g 7s 50c	5	1.004	4
17:00	09:00	3g 79s 67c	3g 46s 67c	7	0.875	3
18:00	10:00	3g 13s 80c	2g 82s 80c	6	0.893	5
19:00	11:00	2g 78s	2g 68s 67c	5	0.844	6
20:00	12:00	2g 87s 92c	2g 54s 83c	6	0.880	6
21:00	13:00	2g 87s 80c	2g 68s	7	0.826	5
22:00	14:00	2g 72s 25c	2g 44s 83c	5	0.805	6
23:00	15:00	2g 44s 33c	2g 25s	7	0.669	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/286993 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 Suffused Bindings?: On Normal Horde US, Suffused Bindings is cheapest from 22:00 to 01:00 UTC (14:00 to 17:00 Pacific) and dearest from 07:00 to 10:00 UTC (23:00 to 02:00 Pacific). Buying in the cheap hours and selling in the dear ones returns about 64% 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.