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, Deep Flora Bindings is cheapest from 11:00 to 14:00 UTC (03:00 to 06:00 Pacific) and dearest from 05:00 to 08:00 UTC (21:00 to 00:00 Pacific). Buying in the cheap hours and selling in the dear ones returns about 65% 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
11:00 to 14:00 UTC
03:00 to 06:00 Pacific · index 0.870 · typical 5g 44s 8c
Best hours to sell
05:00 to 08:00 UTC
21:00 to 00:00 Pacific · index 1.171 · typical 9g 1s 89c
Spread after the 5% cut
+65%
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.
Deep Flora Bindingsby hour · Normal Alliance US
| Hour (UTC) | Pacific | Typical | Lowest | Listings | Index | Days |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 00:00 | 10g 34s | 10g 34s | 1.103 | |||
| 01:00 | 10g 34s | 10g 34s | 1.102 | |||
| 02:00 | 10g 34s | 10g 34s | 1.125 | |||
| 03:00 | 10g 34s | 10g 18s | 1.149 | |||
| 04:00 | 10g 34s | 10g 18s | 1.171 | |||
| 05:00 | 8g 72s 75c | 8g 51s | 1.140 | |||
| 06:00 | 9g 60s 18c | 4g 99s | 1.202 | |||
| 07:00 | 8g 72s 75c | 8g 47s 75c | 1.172 | |||
| 08:00 | 5g 21s 25c | 5g 4s 75c | 0.866 | |||
| 09:00 | 5g 62s 50c | 5g 62s 50c | 1.037 | |||
| 10:00 | 4g 67s 67c | 4g 45s 67c | 1.012 | |||
| 11:00 | 5g 55s 50c | 5g 31s 25c | 0.905 | |||
| 12:00 | 5g 21s 25c | 4g 97s | 0.776 | |||
| 13:00 | 5g 55s 50c | 5g 31s 25c | 0.927 | |||
| 14:00 | 5g 47s 75c | 5g 28s 47c | 0.932 | |||
| 15:00 | 5g 31s 25c | 5g 20s 89c | 0.909 | |||
| 16:00 | 5g 23s 34c | 5g 11s 85c | 0.868 | |||
| 17:00 | 5g 21s 96c | 5g 11s 85c | 0.889 | |||
| 18:00 | 4g 96s 6c | 4g 93s 14c | 0.892 | |||
| 19:00 | 4g 93s 14c | 4g 75s 72c | 0.908 | |||
| 20:00 | 4g 93s 14c | 4g 68s 14c | 0.938 | |||
| 21:00 | 5g 13s 87c | 4g 78s 52c | 0.971 | |||
| 22:00 | 5g 11s 85c | 5g 11s 85c | 0.969 | |||
| 23:00 | 8g 68s 14c | 8g 68s 14c | 1.036 |
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/286998 on the API.
The whole market by hour · Normal Alliance US
| Hour (UTC) | Pacific | Price index | Listings index | Days |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 00:00 | 0.976 | 1.035 | 8 | |
| 01:00 | 0.967 | 1.069 | 9 | |
| 02:00 | 0.974 | 1.042 | 9 | |
| 03:00 | 0.997 | 1.015 | 9 | |
| 04:00 | 0.980 | 1.116 | 9 | |
| 05:00 | 0.970 | 1.108 | 9 | |
| 06:00 | 0.982 | 1.112 | 9 | |
| 07:00 | 0.976 | 1.037 | 8 | |
| 08:00 | 0.984 | 1.097 | 7 | |
| 09:00 | 0.988 | 1.083 | 3 | |
| 10:00 | 1.059 | 1.006 | 6 | |
| 11:00 | 1.039 | 0.958 | 7 | |
| 12:00 | 1.009 | 0.941 | 7 | |
| 13:00 | 1.023 | 0.893 | 8 | |
| 14:00 | 0.999 | 0.872 | 10 | |
| 15:00 | 1.008 | 0.863 | 8 | |
| 16:00 | 1.020 | 0.853 | 7 | |
| 17:00 | 1.024 | 0.884 | 9 | |
| 18:00 | 1.002 | 0.927 | 10 | |
| 19:00 | 1.029 | 0.935 | 9 | |
| 20:00 | 0.995 | 1.015 | 9 | |
| 21:00 | 0.989 | 1.074 | 9 | |
| 22:00 | 0.988 | 1.107 | 9 | |
| 23:00 | 1.022 | 0.961 | 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 01:00 UTC (17:00 Pacific), 3.3% under the daily average, and dearest around 10:00 UTC (02:00 Pacific), 5.9% 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 Deep Flora Bindings?
- On Normal Alliance US, Deep Flora Bindings is cheapest from 11:00 to 14:00 UTC (03:00 to 06:00 Pacific) and dearest from 05:00 to 08:00 UTC (21:00 to 00:00 Pacific). Buying in the cheap hours and selling in the dear ones returns about 65% 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.