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

Across PvP Horde EU, prices run cheapest around 02:00 UTC (03:00 CET), 2.8% under the daily average, and dearest around 04:00 UTC (05:00 CET), 3.9% 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.

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, Defias Enforcer's Prowlers is cheapest from 19:00 to 22:00 UTC (20:00 to 23:00 CET) and dearest from 03:00 to 06:00 UTC (04:00 to 07:00 CET). Buying in the cheap hours and selling in the dear ones returns about 58% 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

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Item

Best hours to buy

19:00 to 22:00 UTC

20:00 to 23:00 CET · index 0.810 · typical 22g 36s

Best hours to sell

03:00 to 06:00 UTC

04:00 to 07:00 CET · index 1.218 · typical 34g 51s

Spread after the 5% cut

+58%

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 1 day of scans behind it over the last 28 days. Read the windows as a hint, not a rule.

Defias Enforcer's Prowlersby hour · PvP Horde EU

Hour (UTC)	CET	Typical	Lowest	Listings	Index	Days
00:00	01:00	26g 17s	24g 71s	6	0.937	5
01:00	02:00	26g 39s	23g 89s	3	0.950	4
02:00	03:00	27g 52s	23g 85s	4	0.956	3
03:00	04:00	40g 62s	38g 28s	4	1.467	3
04:00	05:00	29g 99s	29g 99s	1	1.049	1
05:00	06:00	32g 93s	27g 93s	5	1.138	2
06:00	07:00	32g 93s	27g 93s	4	1.148	2
07:00	08:00	31g 92s	31g 92s	3	1.141	3
08:00	09:00	23g 92s	23g 92s	1	0.842	3
09:00	10:00	31g 92s	31g 92s	2	1.127	3
10:00	11:00	30g 18s	30g 9s	2	1.070	4
11:00	12:00	29g 77s	28g 77s	3	1.055	4
12:00	13:00	28g 28s	28g 6s	5	1.031	3
13:00	14:00	27g 53s	27g 49s	5	0.984	4
14:00	15:00	27g 52s	26g 37s	6	0.982	4
15:00	16:00	27g 28s	25g 2s	6	0.960	4
16:00	17:00	22g 16s	19g 15s	6	0.979	5
17:00	18:00	27g 20s	23g 35s	9	0.976	4
18:00	19:00	26g 77s	22g 89s	7	0.964	4
19:00	20:00	23g 22s	21g 72s	4	0.837	5
20:00	21:00	22g 26s	20g 19s	5	0.811	5
21:00	22:00	21g 62s	20g 19s	5	0.783	5
22:00	23:00	23g 92s	21g 79s	6	0.876	4
23:00	00:00	26g 29s	25g 11s	6	0.938	5

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/287021 on the API.

The whole market by hour · PvP Horde EU

Hour (UTC)	CET	Price index	Listings index	Days
00:00	01:00	0.986	1.207	9
01:00	02:00	0.975	1.082	8
02:00	03:00	0.972	1.132	7
03:00	04:00	0.992	0.985	7
04:00	05:00	1.039	0.839	7
05:00	06:00	0.979	0.912	6
06:00	07:00	0.985	0.880	7
07:00	08:00	0.999	0.803	8
08:00	09:00	1.003	0.847	8
09:00	10:00	1.021	0.824	9
10:00	11:00	0.989	0.895	9
11:00	12:00	0.996	0.925	9
12:00	13:00	0.995	0.965	9
13:00	14:00	1.004	0.963	9
14:00	15:00	1.000	1.003	9
15:00	16:00	1.005	1.027	9
16:00	17:00	1.020	1.064	9
17:00	18:00	1.012	1.025	9
18:00	19:00	0.990	1.104	8
19:00	20:00	0.987	1.057	8
20:00	21:00	1.009	1.043	9
21:00	22:00	1.005	1.126	8
22:00	23:00	1.031	1.145	7
23:00	00:00	1.006	1.147	9

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 02:00 UTC (03:00 CET), 2.8% under the daily average, and dearest around 04:00 UTC (05:00 CET), 3.9% 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 Defias Enforcer's Prowlers?: On PvP Horde EU, Defias Enforcer's Prowlers is cheapest from 19:00 to 22:00 UTC (20:00 to 23:00 CET) and dearest from 03:00 to 06:00 UTC (04:00 to 07:00 CET). Buying in the cheap hours and selling in the dear ones returns about 58% 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.