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, Scorpid Surprise is cheapest from 00:00 to 03:00 UTC (01:00 to 04:00 CET) and dearest from 15:00 to 18:00 UTC (16:00 to 19:00 CET). Buying in the cheap hours and selling in the dear ones returns about 17% 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

00:00 to 03:00 UTC

01:00 to 04:00 CET · index 0.855 · typical 44c

Best hours to sell

15:00 to 18:00 UTC

16:00 to 19:00 CET · index 1.195 · typical 46c

Spread after the 5% cut

+17%

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.

Scorpid Surpriseby hour · PvP Horde EU

Hour (UTC)	CET	Typical	Lowest	Listings	Index	Days
00:00	01:00	51c	47c	19	0.868	4
01:00	02:00	51c	43c	18	0.877	4
02:00	03:00	30c	21c	20	0.819	3
03:00	04:00	33c	21c	16	0.973	3
04:00	05:00	52c	48c	11	0.932	3
05:00	06:00	79c	67c	15	1.039	2
06:00	07:00	55c	48c	13	0.886	3
07:00	08:00	46c	40c	13	0.905	4
08:00	09:00	45c	40c	14	0.873	4
09:00	10:00	46c	40c	14	0.940	4
10:00	11:00	44c	40c	15	0.905	4
11:00	12:00	47c	39c	16	0.999	4
12:00	13:00	44c	42c	17	0.959	4
13:00	14:00	44c	41c	18	0.987	4
14:00	15:00	45c	40c	19	1.019	4
15:00	16:00	33c	21c	20	1.193	3
16:00	17:00	53c	39c	20	1.357	4
17:00	18:00	51c	42c	22	1.035	3
18:00	19:00	23c	19c	24	0.899	3
19:00	20:00	26c	18c	18	1.026	3
20:00	21:00	59c	43c	17	1.146	5
21:00	22:00	80c	76c	13	1.139	3
22:00	23:00	61c	49c	14	1.198	3
23:00	00:00	56c	47c	19	1.025	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/5473 on the API.

The whole market by hour · PvP Horde EU

Hour (UTC)	CET	Price index	Listings index	Days
00:00	01:00	1.004	1.126	4
01:00	02:00	0.960	1.117	4
02:00	03:00	0.956	1.124	3
03:00	04:00	1.022	0.831	3
04:00	05:00	1.110	0.846	4
05:00	06:00	1.034	0.808	2
06:00	07:00	1.035	0.849	3
07:00	08:00	1.009	0.730	4
08:00	09:00	0.997	0.802	5
09:00	10:00	1.035	0.787	5
10:00	11:00	1.020	0.863	5
11:00	12:00	1.005	0.903	5
12:00	13:00	1.016	0.944	5
13:00	14:00	1.008	1.021	5
14:00	15:00	0.982	1.082	5
15:00	16:00	0.971	1.063	5
16:00	17:00	1.004	1.138	5
17:00	18:00	0.956	1.083	4
18:00	19:00	0.958	1.229	4
19:00	20:00	0.947	1.244	4
20:00	21:00	0.978	1.243	5
21:00	22:00	0.991	0.958	3
22:00	23:00	1.008	1.125	3
23:00	00:00	0.995	1.082	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

What is the best time of day to buy and sell Scorpid Surprise?: On PvP Horde EU, Scorpid Surprise is cheapest from 00:00 to 03:00 UTC (01:00 to 04:00 CET) and dearest from 15:00 to 18:00 UTC (16:00 to 19:00 CET). Buying in the cheap hours and selling in the dear ones returns about 17% 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.