When is the WoW Forever auction house cheapest during the day?

Across PvP Horde EU, prices run cheapest around 01:00 UTC (02:00 CET), 3.4% under the daily average, and dearest around 04:00 UTC (05:00 CET), 8.7% 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 PvP Horde EU 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 PvP Horde EU, Item 287020 is cheapest from 07:00 to 10:00 UTC (08:00 to 11:00 CET) and dearest from 21:00 to 00:00 UTC (22:00 to 01:00 CET). Buying in the cheap hours and selling in the dear ones returns about 62% after the 5 percent cut.

Current market: PvP Horde EU. This browser opens every tool here until you pick another. Address for this market: ahledger.com/timing?market=forever/pvp/horde/eu

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

07:00 to 10:00 UTC

08:00 to 11:00 CET · index 0.729 · typical 35g 12s

Best hours to sell

21:00 to 00:00 UTC

22:00 to 01:00 CET · index 1.397 · typical 59g 98s

Spread after the 5% cut

+62%

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.

Item 287020by hour · PvP Horde EU

Hour (UTC)	CET	Typical	Lowest	Listings	Index	Days
00:00	01:00	43g 71s	37g 57s	4	1.100	4
01:00	02:00	43g 32s	36g 57s	4	1.088	4
02:00	03:00	42g 39s	30g 82s	4	1.069	4
03:00	04:00	49g 55s	37g 88s	4	1.100	3
04:00	05:00	66g 99s	66g 99s	2	1.469	2
05:00	06:00	49g 55s	37g 88s	3	1.106	3
06:00	07:00	37g 88s	37g 88s	3	0.910	3
07:00	08:00	39g 83s	39g 83s	4	0.755	2
08:00	09:00	32g 77s	32g 77s	3	0.726	3
09:00	10:00	32g 77s	32g 77s	3	0.707	3
10:00	11:00	34g 16s	34g 16s	4	0.819	2
11:00	12:00	34g 16s	34g 16s	5	0.806	2
12:00	13:00	27g 66s	27g 66s	4	0.891	3
13:00	14:00	27g 66s	27g 66s	4	0.897	3
14:00	15:00	27g 66s	27g 66s	3	0.903	3
15:00	16:00	27g 66s	27g 66s	3	0.904	3
16:00	17:00	33g 8s	31g 16s	2	0.922	4
17:00	18:00	24g 99s	24g 66s	2	0.837	3
18:00	19:00	31g 60s	30g 60s	2	0.891	4
19:00	20:00	30g 61s	30g 60s	4	0.870	4
20:00	21:00	37g 66s	29g 44s	3	1.040	4
21:00	22:00	63g 10s	58g 55s	5	1.412	3
22:00	23:00	69g 33s	62g 50s	7	1.597	2
23:00	00:00	47g 51s	42g 32s	4	1.182	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.pvp.horde.eu/287020 on the API.

The whole market by hour · PvP Horde EU

Hour (UTC)	CET	Price index	Listings index	Days
00:00	01:00	0.987	1.131	7
01:00	02:00	0.966	1.148	7
02:00	03:00	0.970	1.153	6
03:00	04:00	0.987	0.990	6
04:00	05:00	1.087	0.759	6
05:00	06:00	0.994	0.975	5
06:00	07:00	1.005	0.952	6
07:00	08:00	1.005	0.891	7
08:00	09:00	1.020	0.876	8
09:00	10:00	1.016	0.822	8
10:00	11:00	1.005	0.915	7
11:00	12:00	1.012	0.940	7
12:00	13:00	0.995	0.985	7
13:00	14:00	1.004	0.959	7
14:00	15:00	0.986	1.011	7
15:00	16:00	0.986	0.992	7
16:00	17:00	1.017	1.061	7
17:00	18:00	1.001	0.999	7
18:00	19:00	0.980	1.066	6
19:00	20:00	0.989	1.063	6
20:00	21:00	0.994	1.042	7
21:00	22:00	1.012	1.041	6
22:00	23:00	1.003	1.149	5
23:00	00:00	0.977	1.080	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 PvP Horde EU, prices run cheapest around 01:00 UTC (02:00 CET), 3.4% under the daily average, and dearest around 04:00 UTC (05:00 CET), 8.7% 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 Item 287020?: On PvP Horde EU, Item 287020 is cheapest from 07:00 to 10:00 UTC (08:00 to 11:00 CET) and dearest from 21:00 to 00:00 UTC (22:00 to 01:00 CET). Buying in the cheap hours and selling in the dear ones returns about 62% 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 PvP Horde EU through the night fills the gaps.