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.

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, Durable Shoulders is cheapest from 08:00 to 11:00 UTC (09:00 to 12:00 CET) and dearest from 22:00 to 01:00 UTC (23:00 to 02:00 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

08:00 to 11:00 UTC

09:00 to 12:00 CET · index 0.685 · typical 31s 61c

Best hours to sell

22:00 to 01:00 UTC

23:00 to 02:00 CET · index 1.321 · typical 62s 38c

Spread after the 5% cut

+140%

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.

Durable Shouldersby hour · PvP Horde EU

Hour (UTC)	CET	Typical	Lowest	Listings	Index	Days
00:00	01:00	70s 84c	30s	20	1.345	4
01:00	02:00	63s 13c	29s	20	1.253	4
02:00	03:00	70s 25c	29s	22	1.349	4
03:00	04:00	49s 88c	29s	19	1.044	4
04:00	05:00	43s 50c	23s 50c	19	1.163	2
05:00	06:00	69s 17c	34s 50c	14	1.096	2
06:00	07:00	60s 42c	31s 33c	19	1.126	3
07:00	08:00	42s 59c	28s 25c	14	0.837	4
08:00	09:00	30s	24s 75c	16	0.651	4
09:00	10:00	29s 45c	24s 75c	15	0.641	4
10:00	11:00	35s 38c	24s 50c	16	0.765	4
11:00	12:00	37s 96c	24s 50c	19	0.817	4
12:00	13:00	57s 36c	43s 80c	16	0.960	5
13:00	14:00	51s 60c	39s 60c	18	0.863	5
14:00	15:00	53s 12c	39s 20c	21	0.913	5
15:00	16:00	42s 99c	24s	30	0.914	4
16:00	17:00	44s 12c	24s	27	0.840	5
17:00	18:00	59s 78c	29s 20c	22	1.030	5
18:00	19:00	39s 16c	24s	29	0.904	4
19:00	20:00	43s 9c	24s	28	0.990	4
20:00	21:00	41s 54c	31s 75c	19	0.792	4
21:00	22:00	50s 39c	19s	26	1.090	2
22:00	23:00	44s 50c	25s	23	1.277	2
23:00	00:00	71s 79c	30s	19	1.341	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.eu/9824 on the API.

The whole market by hour · PvP Horde EU

Hour (UTC)	CET	Price index	Listings index	Days
00:00	01:00	0.983	1.094	5
01:00	02:00	0.969	1.031	5
02:00	03:00	0.963	1.058	4
03:00	04:00	0.998	0.851	4
04:00	05:00	1.135	0.846	4
05:00	06:00	0.990	0.835	3
06:00	07:00	1.017	0.807	4
07:00	08:00	1.010	0.757	5
08:00	09:00	1.003	0.833	6
09:00	10:00	1.033	0.807	6
10:00	11:00	1.009	0.898	6
11:00	12:00	1.028	0.927	6
12:00	13:00	1.011	0.974	6
13:00	14:00	1.003	1.046	6
14:00	15:00	1.004	1.059	6
15:00	16:00	0.980	1.124	6
16:00	17:00	0.997	1.170	6
17:00	18:00	0.997	1.050	6
18:00	19:00	0.979	1.175	5
19:00	20:00	0.941	1.291	5
20:00	21:00	0.982	1.106	5
21:00	22:00	0.963	1.116	4
22:00	23:00	1.023	1.107	3
23:00	00:00	0.981	1.039	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), 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 Durable Shoulders?: On PvP Horde EU, Durable Shoulders is cheapest from 08:00 to 11:00 UTC (09:00 to 12:00 CET) and dearest from 22:00 to 01:00 UTC (23:00 to 02:00 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.