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, Turtle Meat 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 19% 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
14:00 to 17:00 UTC
06:00 to 09:00 Pacific · index 0.875 · typical 18s 17c
Best hours to sell
23:00 to 02:00 UTC
15:00 to 18:00 Pacific · index 1.138 · typical 19s 71c
Spread after the 5% cut
+19%
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.
Turtle Meatby hour · PvP Horde US
| Hour (UTC) | Pacific | Typical | Lowest | Listings | Index | Days |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 00:00 | 17s 1c | 15s 54c | 1.178 | |||
| 01:00 | 19s 55c | 15s 99c | 1.096 | |||
| 02:00 | 21s 95c | 18s 94c | 1.023 | |||
| 03:00 | 21s 14c | 17s 98c | 0.965 | |||
| 04:00 | 24s 44c | 14s 73c | 1.074 | |||
| 05:00 | 14s 14c | 9s 52c | 1.070 | |||
| 06:00 | 24s 45c | 19s 75c | 1.035 | |||
| 07:00 | 23s 29c | 19s 10c | 1.035 | |||
| 08:00 | 15s 36c | 12s 24c | 0.919 | |||
| 09:00 | 21s 48c | 14s 93c | 0.960 | |||
| 10:00 | 20s 97c | 15s 43c | 0.950 | |||
| 11:00 | 21s 48c | 16s 70c | 0.984 | |||
| 12:00 | 20s 95c | 17s 61c | 0.955 | |||
| 13:00 | 19s 29c | 15s 98c | 0.886 | |||
| 14:00 | 18s 25c | 15s 63c | 0.866 | |||
| 15:00 | 18s 24c | 15s 70c | 0.885 | |||
| 16:00 | 18s 2c | 15s 88c | 0.874 | |||
| 17:00 | 17s 92c | 14s 66c | 0.887 | |||
| 18:00 | 23s 22c | 18s 95c | 1.050 | |||
| 19:00 | 22s 79c | 19s 32c | 1.043 | |||
| 20:00 | 22s 39c | 18s 67c | 1.034 | |||
| 21:00 | 22s 1c | 19s 66c | 1.022 | |||
| 22:00 | 22s 16c | 16s 1c | 1.072 | |||
| 23:00 | 22s 56c | 17s 16c | 1.139 |
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/3712 on the API.
The whole market by hour · PvP Horde US
| Hour (UTC) | Pacific | Price index | Listings index | Days |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 00:00 | 1.043 | 1.010 | 4 | |
| 01:00 | 1.132 | 0.883 | 3 | |
| 02:00 | 1.071 | 0.818 | 5 | |
| 03:00 | 1.034 | 1.054 | 5 | |
| 04:00 | 1.018 | 1.049 | 5 | |
| 05:00 | 1.019 | 1.097 | 3 | |
| 06:00 | 0.996 | 1.117 | 5 | |
| 07:00 | 0.984 | 1.188 | 3 | |
| 08:00 | 0.985 | 1.138 | 4 | |
| 09:00 | 1.007 | 1.091 | 5 | |
| 10:00 | 0.987 | 1.090 | 5 | |
| 11:00 | 0.970 | 1.045 | 5 | |
| 12:00 | 0.962 | 1.050 | 5 | |
| 13:00 | 0.949 | 1.034 | 5 | |
| 14:00 | 0.962 | 1.020 | 5 | |
| 15:00 | 0.990 | 0.986 | 4 | |
| 16:00 | 0.990 | 0.916 | 5 | |
| 17:00 | 0.989 | 0.982 | 5 | |
| 18:00 | 1.006 | 0.851 | 4 | |
| 19:00 | 0.968 | 0.873 | 4 | |
| 20:00 | 0.966 | 0.893 | 4 | |
| 21:00 | 0.978 | 0.919 | 4 | |
| 22:00 | 0.988 | 0.929 | 3 | |
| 23:00 | 1.006 | 0.968 | 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 13:00 UTC (05:00 Pacific), 5.1% under the daily average, and dearest around 01:00 UTC (17:00 Pacific), 13.2% 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 Turtle Meat?
- On PvP Horde US, Turtle Meat 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 19% 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.