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

Across PvP Horde EU, prices run cheapest around 19:00 UTC (20:00 CET), 6.7% under the daily average, and dearest around 04:00 UTC (05:00 CET), 15.6% 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, Strength of Will is cheapest from 18:00 to 21:00 UTC (19:00 to 22:00 CET) and dearest from 14:00 to 17:00 UTC (15:00 to 18:00 CET). Buying in the cheap hours and selling in the dear ones returns about 18% 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

18:00 to 21:00 UTC

19:00 to 22:00 CET · index 0.899 · typical 59s 18c

Best hours to sell

14:00 to 17:00 UTC

15:00 to 18:00 CET · index 1.078 · typical 71s 38c

Spread after the 5% cut

+18%

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.

Strength of Willby hour · PvP Horde EU

Hour (UTC)	CET	Typical	Lowest	Listings	Index	Days
00:00	01:00	69s	65s	9	0.970	4
01:00	02:00	68s 50c	67s 50c	9	0.979	4
02:00	03:00	68s 50c	67s 25c	8	0.995	4
03:00	04:00	68s	66s 75c	7	1.004	4
04:00	05:00	58s 50c	57s	8	1.007	2
05:00	06:00	76s 50c	76s 50c	4	1.028	2
06:00	07:00	78s 67c	77s 33c	6	1.064	3
07:00	08:00	74s 20c	73s 20c	4	1.037	5
08:00	09:00	73s 38c	73s 20c	5	1.031	5
09:00	10:00	72s 70c	70s 20c	5	1.034	5
10:00	11:00	64s	60s 25c	7	1.055	4
11:00	12:00	62s 75c	54s	8	1.048	4
12:00	13:00	62s 75c	50s 50c	8	1.061	4
13:00	14:00	62s 75c	50s 25c	9	1.075	4
14:00	15:00	60s 88c	50s 25c	10	1.057	4
15:00	16:00	69s	55s 33c	11	1.074	3
16:00	17:00	84s 25c	74s	8	1.103	4
17:00	18:00	75s 29c	71s 50c	7	0.971	4
18:00	19:00	53s 67c	52s	11	0.877	3
19:00	20:00	52s 27c	51s 67c	11	0.876	3
20:00	21:00	71s 61c	68s 75c	10	0.945	4
21:00	22:00	34s	34s	10	0.884	2
22:00	23:00	61s	60s	13	0.868	2
23:00	00:00	69s	68s 25c	8	0.956	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/4837 on the API.

The whole market by hour · PvP Horde EU

Hour (UTC)	CET	Price index	Listings index	Days
00:00	01:00	0.988	1.065	5
01:00	02:00	0.967	1.007	5
02:00	03:00	0.965	1.026	4
03:00	04:00	1.012	0.840	4
04:00	05:00	1.156	0.824	4
05:00	06:00	0.999	0.839	3
06:00	07:00	1.030	0.815	4
07:00	08:00	1.023	0.780	5
08:00	09:00	1.019	0.867	6
09:00	10:00	1.048	0.846	6
10:00	11:00	1.015	0.958	6
11:00	12:00	1.024	0.997	6
12:00	13:00	1.000	1.060	6
13:00	14:00	1.001	1.149	6
14:00	15:00	0.984	1.239	6
15:00	16:00	0.963	1.061	5
16:00	17:00	1.008	1.100	5
17:00	18:00	0.988	0.941	5
18:00	19:00	0.945	1.142	4
19:00	20:00	0.933	1.130	4
20:00	21:00	0.976	1.094	5
21:00	22:00	0.948	1.097	4
22:00	23:00	1.025	1.103	3
23:00	00:00	0.982	1.020	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 EU, prices run cheapest around 19:00 UTC (20:00 CET), 6.7% under the daily average, and dearest around 04:00 UTC (05:00 CET), 15.6% 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 Strength of Will?: On PvP Horde EU, Strength of Will is cheapest from 18:00 to 21:00 UTC (19:00 to 22:00 CET) and dearest from 14:00 to 17:00 UTC (15:00 to 18:00 CET). Buying in the cheap hours and selling in the dear ones returns about 18% 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.