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, Scroll of Strength is cheapest from 17:00 to 20:00 UTC (18:00 to 21:00 CET) and dearest from 04:00 to 07:00 UTC (05:00 to 08:00 CET). Buying in the cheap hours and selling in the dear ones returns about 140% 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 0.734 · typical 1s 43c

Best hours to sell

04:00 to 07:00 UTC

05:00 to 08:00 CET · index 1.352 · typical 3s 4c

Spread after the 5% cut

+140%

buy at the cheap hours' lowest buyout, sell at the dear hours' typical price

Confidence

provisional

Provisional: the thinnest hour has 3 days of scans behind it over the last 28 days; 10 makes it settled.

Scroll of Strengthby hour · PvP Horde EU

Hour (UTC)	CET	Typical	Lowest	Listings	Index	Days
00:00	01:00	1s 97c	1s 4c	115	1.015	5
01:00	02:00	2s 72c	1s 76c	119	1.262	5
02:00	03:00	3s 11c	1s 26c	130	1.415	4
03:00	04:00	2s 53c	1s 32c	95	1.208	4
04:00	05:00	2s 92c	2s 32c	62	1.294	4
05:00	06:00	3s 27c	2s 31c	81	1.434	3
06:00	07:00	2s 94c	1s 54c	74	1.328	4
07:00	08:00	2s 10c	1s 44c	91	1.065	5
08:00	09:00	2s 47c	1s 49c	94	1.075	6
09:00	10:00	2s 42c	1s 86c	99	1.121	6
10:00	11:00	1s 99c	1s 53c	120	0.972	6
11:00	12:00	1s 97c	1s 49c	142	0.982	6
12:00	13:00	1s 86c	1s 39c	158	0.930	6
13:00	14:00	1s 79c	1s 31c	157	0.878	6
14:00	15:00	1s 66c	1s 18c	168	0.816	6
15:00	16:00	1s 58c	1s 28c	137	0.816	5
16:00	17:00	1s 69c	1s 28c	131	0.904	5
17:00	18:00	1s 46c	1s 27c	141	0.764	5
18:00	19:00	1s 43c	1s 20c	194	0.722	4
19:00	20:00	1s 40c	1s 14c	181	0.717	4
20:00	21:00	1s 60c	1s 7c	114	0.856	5
21:00	22:00	1s 31c	1s	179	0.674	3
22:00	23:00	1s 63c	1s 8c	193	0.968	3
23:00	00:00	1s 41c	1s 6c	123	0.783	5

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/954 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 Scroll of Strength?: On PvP Horde EU, Scroll of Strength is cheapest from 17:00 to 20:00 UTC (18:00 to 21:00 CET) and dearest from 04:00 to 07:00 UTC (05:00 to 08:00 CET). Buying in the cheap hours and selling in the dear ones returns about 140% 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.