When is the WoW Forever auction house cheapest during the day?

Across PvP Horde US, prices run cheapest around 13:00 UTC (05:00 Pacific), 5.2% under the daily average, and dearest around 01:00 UTC (17:00 Pacific), 9.8% 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 US 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 US, Ivycloth Bracelets is cheapest from 04:00 to 07:00 UTC (20:00 to 23:00 Pacific) and dearest from 17:00 to 20:00 UTC (09:00 to 12:00 Pacific). Buying in the cheap hours and selling in the dear ones returns about 199% after the 5 percent cut.

Current market: PvP Horde US. This browser opens every tool here until you pick another. Address for this market: ahledger.com/timing?market=forever/pvp/horde/us

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

04:00 to 07:00 UTC

20:00 to 23:00 Pacific · index 0.701 · typical 11s 1c

Best hours to sell

17:00 to 20:00 UTC

09:00 to 12:00 Pacific · index 1.496 · typical 29s 91c

Spread after the 5% cut

+199%

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.

Ivycloth Braceletsby hour · PvP Horde US

Hour (UTC)	Pacific	Typical	Lowest	Listings	Index	Days
00:00	16:00	23s	21s 33c	16	0.968	3
01:00	17:00	29s 50c	28s 50c	11	1.057	2
02:00	18:00	19s 50c	18s 25c	15	0.886	4
03:00	19:00	19s 50c	12s	21	0.889	4
04:00	20:00	12s 46c	12s	19	0.682	4
05:00	21:00	7s 78c	7s	25	0.705	2
06:00	22:00	12s 79c	9s 50c	21	0.715	4
07:00	23:00	15s 72c	12s 67c	16	0.715	3
08:00	00:00	11s	7s 67c	24	0.939	3
09:00	01:00	19s 64c	8s 50c	21	0.983	4
10:00	02:00	18s 83c	11s 75c	21	0.932	4
11:00	03:00	18s 67c	11s 75c	20	0.929	4
12:00	04:00	18s 89c	11s 25c	22	0.964	4
13:00	05:00	14s 32c	11s 50c	21	0.842	4
14:00	06:00	12s 83c	9s 75c	21	0.806	4
15:00	07:00	16s 34c	9s 75c	20	1.098	4
16:00	08:00	28s 17c	23s 40c	14	1.188	5
17:00	09:00	32s 7c	23s 20c	14	1.495	5
18:00	10:00	29s 79c	18s 20c	16	1.495	5
19:00	11:00	27s 86c	16s 80c	15	1.497	5
20:00	12:00	25s 93c	12s 20c	18	1.327	5
21:00	13:00	23s 25c	17s 50c	18	1.016	4
22:00	14:00	12s 67c	8s 33c	21	0.907	3
23:00	15:00	22s	18s 75c	16	0.964	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.us/9793 on the API.

The whole market by hour · PvP Horde US

Hour (UTC)	Pacific	Price index	Listings index	Days
00:00	16:00	1.055	1.002	4
01:00	17:00	1.098	0.891	3
02:00	18:00	1.064	0.819	5
03:00	19:00	1.036	1.050	5
04:00	20:00	1.017	1.048	5
05:00	21:00	1.022	1.103	3
06:00	22:00	0.991	1.124	5
07:00	23:00	0.977	1.188	3
08:00	00:00	0.975	1.137	4
09:00	01:00	1.002	1.080	5
10:00	02:00	0.984	1.070	5
11:00	03:00	0.974	1.018	5
12:00	04:00	0.964	1.022	5
13:00	05:00	0.948	0.998	5
14:00	06:00	0.962	0.971	5
15:00	07:00	0.989	0.936	4
16:00	08:00	0.998	0.889	5
17:00	09:00	0.985	0.920	5
18:00	10:00	1.010	0.944	5
19:00	11:00	0.987	0.979	5
20:00	12:00	0.981	1.047	5
21:00	13:00	0.984	0.909	4
22:00	14:00	0.987	0.909	3
23:00	15:00	1.010	0.946	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

When is the WoW Forever auction house cheapest during the day?: Across PvP Horde US, prices run cheapest around 13:00 UTC (05:00 Pacific), 5.2% under the daily average, and dearest around 01:00 UTC (17:00 Pacific), 9.8% 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 Ivycloth Bracelets?: On PvP Horde US, Ivycloth Bracelets is cheapest from 04:00 to 07:00 UTC (20:00 to 23:00 Pacific) and dearest from 17:00 to 20:00 UTC (09:00 to 12:00 Pacific). Buying in the cheap hours and selling in the dear ones returns about 199% 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 US through the night fills the gaps.