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), 6.6% under the daily average, and dearest around 04:00 UTC (05:00 CET), 15.1% 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, Scorpid Scale is cheapest from 13:00 to 16:00 UTC (14:00 to 17:00 CET) and dearest from 02:00 to 05:00 UTC (03:00 to 06:00 CET). Buying in the cheap hours and selling in the dear ones returns about 134% 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

13:00 to 16:00 UTC

14:00 to 17:00 CET · index 0.907 · typical 29s 60c

Best hours to sell

02:00 to 05:00 UTC

03:00 to 06:00 CET · index 1.126 · typical 63s 72c

Spread after the 5% cut

+134%

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 Scaleby hour · PvP Horde EU

Hour (UTC)	CET	Typical	Lowest	Listings	Index	Days
00:00	01:00	50s 25c	49s 92c	52	1.043	3
01:00	02:00	50s 18c	49s 92c	48	1.075	3
02:00	03:00	62s 63c	61s 90c	42	1.081	4
03:00	04:00	62s 65c	61s 90c	31	1.099	4
04:00	05:00	65s 89c	65s 88c	36	1.199	2
05:00	06:00	58s 34c	58s	37	0.987	2
06:00	07:00	72s 22c	56s 63c	30	1.143	3
07:00	08:00	62s 1c	49s 74c	36	1.137	4
08:00	09:00	50s 56c	44s 75c	40	0.982	4
09:00	10:00	50s 53c	44s 27c	37	0.995	4
10:00	11:00	33s 33c	25s 99c	53	0.966	3
11:00	12:00	33s 1c	25s 96c	50	0.977	3
12:00	13:00	32s 78c	25s 32c	48	0.996	3
13:00	14:00	26s 2c	24s 98c	50	0.894	3
14:00	15:00	31s 50c	25s	53	0.901	2
15:00	16:00	31s 28c	27s 49c	56	0.925	2
16:00	17:00	30s 12c	25s 98c	60	0.907	2
17:00	18:00	31s 50c	28s 48c	35	1.002	2
18:00	19:00	28s 18c	25s 47c	61	0.868	2
19:00	20:00	52s 5c	50s 24c	44	0.942	3
20:00	21:00	51s 37c	50s 24c	53	0.955	3
21:00	22:00	25s 48c	23s 85c	88	0.883	2
22:00	23:00	65s 98c	65s 89c	25	1.027	2
23:00	00:00	50s 30c	50s 17c	46	1.016	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/8154 on the API.

The whole market by hour · PvP Horde EU

Hour (UTC)	CET	Price index	Listings index	Days
00:00	01:00	0.985	1.066	5
01:00	02:00	0.960	1.004	5
02:00	03:00	0.961	1.029	4
03:00	04:00	0.998	0.840	4
04:00	05:00	1.151	0.830	4
05:00	06:00	0.997	0.832	3
06:00	07:00	1.037	0.818	4
07:00	08:00	1.029	0.780	5
08:00	09:00	1.033	0.881	6
09:00	10:00	1.050	0.868	6
10:00	11:00	1.019	0.986	6
11:00	12:00	1.023	1.023	6
12:00	13:00	1.002	1.094	6
13:00	14:00	0.998	1.193	6
14:00	15:00	0.986	1.062	5
15:00	16:00	0.965	1.061	5
16:00	17:00	1.010	1.090	5
17:00	18:00	0.986	0.931	5
18:00	19:00	0.945	1.139	4
19:00	20:00	0.934	1.136	4
20:00	21:00	0.978	1.096	5
21:00	22:00	0.944	1.109	4
22:00	23:00	1.033	1.107	3
23:00	00:00	0.977	1.024	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), 6.6% under the daily average, and dearest around 04:00 UTC (05:00 CET), 15.1% 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 Scorpid Scale?: On PvP Horde EU, Scorpid Scale is cheapest from 13:00 to 16:00 UTC (14:00 to 17:00 CET) and dearest from 02:00 to 05:00 UTC (03:00 to 06:00 CET). Buying in the cheap hours and selling in the dear ones returns about 134% 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.