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, Silk Bandage is cheapest from 17:00 to 20:00 UTC (18:00 to 21:00 CET) and dearest from 21:00 to 00:00 UTC (22:00 to 01:00 CET). Buying in the cheap hours and selling in the dear ones returns about 19% 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

17:00 to 20:00 UTC

18:00 to 21:00 CET · index 0.933 · typical 2s 11c

Best hours to sell

21:00 to 00:00 UTC

22:00 to 01:00 CET · index 1.069 · typical 2s 50c

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.

Silk Bandageby hour · PvP Horde EU

Hour (UTC)	CET	Typical	Lowest	Listings	Index	Days
00:00	01:00	2s 42c	2s 33c	43	0.961	3
01:00	02:00	2s 33c	2s 33c	58	0.939	3
02:00	03:00	2s 33c	2s 33c	58	0.947	3
03:00	04:00	2s 33c	2s 23c	30	0.953	3
04:00	05:00	2s 17c	2s	46	1.029	2
05:00	06:00	3s	2s 70c	16	0.982	1
06:00	07:00	2s 50c	2s 35c	33	0.972	2
07:00	08:00	2s 33c	2s 23c	38	0.981	3
08:00	09:00	2s 28c	2s 23c	40	0.965	3
09:00	10:00	2s 23c	2s 23c	35	0.963	3
10:00	11:00	2s 92c	2s 91c	32	0.973	4
11:00	12:00	2s 92c	2s 91c	37	0.977	4
12:00	13:00	2s 97c	2s 91c	39	1.025	4
13:00	14:00	2s 41c	2s 25c	45	1.022	2
14:00	15:00	2s 33c	2s	54	0.999	2
15:00	16:00	2s 33c	2s	58	1.007	2
16:00	17:00	2s 58c	2s	55	1.135	2
17:00	18:00	2s 25c	2s	65	0.981	2
18:00	19:00	2s 5c	2s	71	0.911	2
19:00	20:00	2s 3c	2s	80	0.908	2
20:00	21:00	3s 28c	2s 33c	42	1.163	3
21:00	22:00	2s	2s	98	0.978	1
22:00	23:00	2s 34c	2s	61	1.061	2
23:00	00:00	3s 16c	2s 33c	44	1.168	3

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/6450 on the API.

The whole market by hour · PvP Horde EU

Hour (UTC)	CET	Price index	Listings index	Days
00:00	01:00	1.003	1.106	4
01:00	02:00	0.968	1.123	4
02:00	03:00	0.955	1.150	3
03:00	04:00	1.015	0.848	3
04:00	05:00	1.117	0.875	4
05:00	06:00	1.024	0.827	2
06:00	07:00	1.030	0.854	3
07:00	08:00	1.033	0.787	4
08:00	09:00	1.000	0.883	5
09:00	10:00	1.035	0.860	5
10:00	11:00	1.010	0.963	5
11:00	12:00	1.011	1.042	5
12:00	13:00	1.003	1.121	5
13:00	14:00	1.001	0.990	4
14:00	15:00	0.974	1.029	4
15:00	16:00	0.952	0.966	4
16:00	17:00	1.022	1.045	4
17:00	18:00	0.949	1.083	4
18:00	19:00	0.925	1.124	3
19:00	20:00	0.917	1.137	3
20:00	21:00	1.015	1.048	4
21:00	22:00	0.999	0.954	3
22:00	23:00	1.029	1.117	3
23:00	00:00	1.013	1.069	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 Silk Bandage?: On PvP Horde EU, Silk Bandage is cheapest from 17:00 to 20:00 UTC (18:00 to 21:00 CET) and dearest from 21:00 to 00:00 UTC (22:00 to 01:00 CET). 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 EU through the night fills the gaps.