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, Corroded Handguards is cheapest from 14:00 to 17:00 UTC (06:00 to 09:00 Pacific) and dearest from 23:00 to 02:00 UTC (15:00 to 18:00 Pacific). Buying in the cheap hours and selling in the dear ones returns about 31% 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
14:00 to 17:00 UTC
06:00 to 09:00 Pacific · index 0.894 · typical 2g 24s
Best hours to sell
23:00 to 02:00 UTC
15:00 to 18:00 Pacific · index 1.151 · typical 2g 78s 4c
Spread after the 5% cut
+31%
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.
Corroded Handguardsby hour · Normal Alliance US
| Hour (UTC) | Pacific | Typical | Lowest | Listings | Index | Days |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 00:00 | 2g 90s 86c | 2g 59s 42c | 1.163 | |||
| 01:00 | 2g 69s 8c | 2g 34s 80c | 1.155 | |||
| 02:00 | 2g 77s 31c | 2g 50s 80c | 1.081 | |||
| 03:00 | 4g 53s 75c | 4g 30s 57c | 1.083 | |||
| 04:00 | 4g 51s 19c | 4g 42s 57c | 1.073 | |||
| 05:00 | 4g 45s 14c | 4g 28s 14c | 1.058 | |||
| 06:00 | 2g 94s 77c | 2g 54s 40c | 1.063 | |||
| 07:00 | 2g 39s 80c | 1g 99s | 1.022 | |||
| 08:00 | 3g 66s 50c | 3g 32s 33c | 1.001 | |||
| 09:00 | 5g 61s | 5g 61s | 0.905 | |||
| 10:00 | 2g 98s | 2g 93s 33c | 0.980 | |||
| 11:00 | 2g 11s 50c | 2g 10s | 0.890 | |||
| 12:00 | 2g 40s 67c | 2g 18s 50c | 0.926 | |||
| 13:00 | 2g 32s 33c | 2g 10s 17c | 0.904 | |||
| 14:00 | 2g 27s 64c | 2g 10s 17c | 0.883 | |||
| 15:00 | 2g 32s 20c | 2g 11s 80c | 0.900 | |||
| 16:00 | 2g 12s 17c | 1g 84s 80c | 0.898 | |||
| 17:00 | 2g 18s 87c | 1g 84s 80c | 0.929 | |||
| 18:00 | 2g 25s 5c | 2g 24s 17c | 0.900 | |||
| 19:00 | 2g 30s 78c | 2g 24s 17c | 0.930 | |||
| 20:00 | 2g 58s 71c | 2g 44s 14c | 0.935 | |||
| 21:00 | 2g 80s 71c | 2g 61s 43c | 1.049 | |||
| 22:00 | 2g 90s 76c | 2g 59s | 1.139 | |||
| 23:00 | 2g 74s 17c | 2g 42s 50c | 1.133 |
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/287003 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 Corroded Handguards?
- On Normal Alliance US, Corroded Handguards is cheapest from 14:00 to 17:00 UTC (06:00 to 09:00 Pacific) and dearest from 23:00 to 02:00 UTC (15:00 to 18:00 Pacific). Buying in the cheap hours and selling in the dear ones returns about 31% 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.