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, Doomspike is cheapest from 10:00 to 13:00 UTC (02:00 to 05:00 Pacific) and dearest from 21:00 to 00:00 UTC (13:00 to 16:00 Pacific). Buying in the cheap hours and selling in the dear ones returns about 222% 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
10:00 to 13:00 UTC
02:00 to 05:00 Pacific · index 0.709 · typical 3g 35s 64c
Best hours to sell
21:00 to 00:00 UTC
13:00 to 16:00 Pacific · index 1.575 · typical 9g 61s 1c
Spread after the 5% cut
+222%
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.
Doomspikeby hour · PvP Horde US
| Hour (UTC) | Pacific | Typical | Lowest | Listings | Index | Days |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 00:00 | 8g 82s 17c | 5g 19s 33c | 1.465 | |||
| 01:00 | 2g 97s 50c | 2g 39s 50c | 0.998 | |||
| 02:00 | 7g 60s 63c | 4g 10s | 1.327 | |||
| 03:00 | 4g 30s 93c | 3g 10s | 0.867 | |||
| 04:00 | 5g 48s 77c | 3g 79s 80c | 1.028 | |||
| 05:00 | 4g 22s 93c | 2g 58s | 0.821 | |||
| 06:00 | 3g 87s 95c | 3g 8s 80c | 0.831 | |||
| 07:00 | 3g 89s 69c | 2g 46s | 0.800 | |||
| 08:00 | 3g 10s 75c | 2g 22s 50c | 0.722 | |||
| 09:00 | 3g 68s 49c | 2g 90s 20c | 0.763 | |||
| 10:00 | 3g 39s | 2g 72s 80c | 0.710 | |||
| 11:00 | 3g 49s 53c | 2g 87s 60c | 0.728 | |||
| 12:00 | 3g 18s 40c | 2g 91s 40c | 0.689 | |||
| 13:00 | 4g 67s 50c | 2g 91s 20c | 1.087 | |||
| 14:00 | 4g 44s 10c | 2g 90s 20c | 1.023 | |||
| 15:00 | 4g 41s 60c | 4g 19s 20c | 1.032 | |||
| 16:00 | 4g 40s 13c | 4g 9s | 1.028 | |||
| 17:00 | 3g 59s 65c | 3g 11s 50c | 0.842 | |||
| 18:00 | 3g 33s 17c | 2g 60s 50c | 0.805 | |||
| 19:00 | 3g 36s 94c | 3g 4s 50c | 0.834 | |||
| 20:00 | 3g 46s 38c | 3g 17s 50c | 0.875 | |||
| 21:00 | 10g 32s | 8g 51s | 1.663 | |||
| 22:00 | 9g 63s 13c | 8g 63s | 1.584 | |||
| 23:00 | 8g 87s 25c | 7g 24s 50c | 1.478 |
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/3413 on the API.
The whole market by hour · PvP Horde US
| Hour (UTC) | Pacific | Price index | Listings index | Days |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 00:00 | 0.984 | 1.017 | 5 | |
| 01:00 | 1.023 | 0.978 | 4 | |
| 02:00 | 1.037 | 0.937 | 6 | |
| 03:00 | 1.023 | 1.012 | 6 | |
| 04:00 | 0.980 | 1.059 | 6 | |
| 05:00 | 0.972 | 1.088 | 4 | |
| 06:00 | 0.966 | 1.127 | 6 | |
| 07:00 | 1.012 | 1.120 | 4 | |
| 08:00 | 1.040 | 1.060 | 5 | |
| 09:00 | 1.053 | 1.022 | 6 | |
| 10:00 | 0.998 | 1.064 | 6 | |
| 11:00 | 0.993 | 1.037 | 6 | |
| 12:00 | 0.993 | 1.033 | 6 | |
| 13:00 | 0.991 | 1.018 | 6 | |
| 14:00 | 0.994 | 1.011 | 6 | |
| 15:00 | 0.995 | 0.999 | 5 | |
| 16:00 | 0.995 | 0.972 | 6 | |
| 17:00 | 0.993 | 0.873 | 5 | |
| 18:00 | 1.038 | 0.877 | 5 | |
| 19:00 | 1.005 | 0.898 | 5 | |
| 20:00 | 0.993 | 0.936 | 5 | |
| 21:00 | 0.978 | 0.963 | 5 | |
| 22:00 | 0.970 | 0.921 | 4 | |
| 23:00 | 0.977 | 0.979 | 5 |
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 06:00 UTC (22:00 Pacific), 3.4% under the daily average, and dearest around 09:00 UTC (01:00 Pacific), 5.3% 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 Doomspike?
- On PvP Horde US, Doomspike is cheapest from 10:00 to 13:00 UTC (02:00 to 05:00 Pacific) and dearest from 21:00 to 00:00 UTC (13:00 to 16:00 Pacific). Buying in the cheap hours and selling in the dear ones returns about 222% 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.