Best hours to buy and sell

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), 5.9% under the daily average, and dearest around 04:00 UTC (05:00 CET), 13.5% 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 Alabaster Plate Vambraces?

On PvP Horde EU, Alabaster Plate Vambraces is cheapest from 07:00 to 10:00 UTC (08:00 to 11:00 CET) and dearest from 00:00 to 03:00 UTC (01:00 to 04:00 CET). Buying in the cheap hours and selling in the dear ones returns about 13% 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.