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 US, Recipe: Limited Invulnerability Potion is cheapest from 01:00 to 04:00 UTC (17:00 to 20:00 Pacific) and dearest from 13:00 to 16:00 UTC (05:00 to 08:00 Pacific). Buying in the cheap hours and selling in the dear ones returns about 157% after the 5 percent cut.
Current market: PvP Horde US. This browser opens every tool here until you pick another. Address for this market: ahledger.com/timing?market=forever/pvp/horde/us
Item
Best hours to buy
01:00 to 04:00 UTC
17:00 to 20:00 Pacific · index 0.752 · typical 8g 19s 11c
Best hours to sell
13:00 to 16:00 UTC
05:00 to 08:00 Pacific · index 1.153 · typical 17g 85s
Spread after the 5% cut
+157%
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.
Recipe: Limited Invulnerability Potionby hour · PvP Horde US
| Hour (UTC) | Pacific | Typical | Lowest | Listings | Index | Days |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 00:00 | 11g | 5g 37s 50c | 0.943 | |||
| 01:00 | 13g 8s | 9g | 0.778 | |||
| 02:00 | 5g 75s | 5g 50s | 0.716 | |||
| 03:00 | 5g 74s 17c | 5g 30s | 0.762 | |||
| 04:00 | 5g 53s 37c | 4g 97s 50c | 0.794 | |||
| 05:00 | 5g 49s 10c | 5g 30s | 0.834 | |||
| 06:00 | 5g 46s 34c | 4g 80s | 0.871 | |||
| 07:00 | 5g 30s | 4g 67s 50c | 0.897 | |||
| 08:00 | 5g 30s | 4g 34s 50c | 0.951 | |||
| 09:00 | 5g 7s 15c | 3g 82s 50c | 0.973 | |||
| 10:00 | 4g 82s | 2g 87s 50c | 1.012 | |||
| 11:00 | 13g 9s | 11g 38s | 1.062 | |||
| 12:00 | 17g 99s | 16g 17s | 1.051 | |||
| 13:00 | 17g 92s | 16g 15s | 1.103 | |||
| 14:00 | 18g 18s | 16g 2s | 1.221 | |||
| 15:00 | 17g 47s | 16g 2s | 1.136 | |||
| 16:00 | 17g 2s | 16g 47s | 1.093 | |||
| 17:00 | 17g 2s | 16g 47s | 1.143 | |||
| 18:00 | 16g 49s | 15g 99s | 1.071 | |||
| 19:00 | 16g 47s | 15g 99s | 1.114 | |||
| 20:00 | 15g 99s | 15g 94s | 1.027 | |||
| 21:00 | 16g 31s | 5g 94s 50c | 1.168 | |||
| 22:00 | 15g 99s | 5g 99s 50c | 1.116 | |||
| 23:00 | 15g 99s | 5g 62s 50c | 1.163 |
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.us/3395 on the API.
The whole market by hour · PvP Horde US
| Hour (UTC) | Pacific | Price index | Listings index | Days |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 00:00 | 1.045 | 0.972 | 4 | |
| 01:00 | 1.119 | 0.879 | 3 | |
| 02:00 | 1.061 | 0.828 | 5 | |
| 03:00 | 1.044 | 1.068 | 5 | |
| 04:00 | 1.011 | 1.069 | 5 | |
| 05:00 | 1.015 | 1.136 | 3 | |
| 06:00 | 1.003 | 1.175 | 5 | |
| 07:00 | 0.989 | 1.279 | 3 | |
| 08:00 | 0.983 | 1.224 | 4 | |
| 09:00 | 0.990 | 1.171 | 5 | |
| 10:00 | 0.965 | 1.166 | 5 | |
| 11:00 | 0.972 | 1.052 | 4 | |
| 12:00 | 0.973 | 1.017 | 4 | |
| 13:00 | 0.965 | 1.007 | 4 | |
| 14:00 | 0.968 | 0.977 | 4 | |
| 15:00 | 0.951 | 0.942 | 3 | |
| 16:00 | 0.978 | 0.889 | 4 | |
| 17:00 | 0.985 | 0.846 | 4 | |
| 18:00 | 1.018 | 0.836 | 4 | |
| 19:00 | 0.986 | 0.852 | 4 | |
| 20:00 | 0.979 | 0.877 | 4 | |
| 21:00 | 0.988 | 0.907 | 4 | |
| 22:00 | 1.004 | 0.894 | 3 | |
| 23:00 | 1.008 | 0.937 | 4 |
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 US, prices run cheapest around 15:00 UTC (07:00 Pacific), 4.9% under the daily average, and dearest around 01:00 UTC (17:00 Pacific), 11.9% 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 Recipe: Limited Invulnerability Potion?
- On PvP Horde US, Recipe: Limited Invulnerability Potion is cheapest from 01:00 to 04:00 UTC (17:00 to 20:00 Pacific) and dearest from 13:00 to 16:00 UTC (05:00 to 08:00 Pacific). Buying in the cheap hours and selling in the dear ones returns about 157% 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 US through the night fills the gaps.