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), 6.2% under the daily average, and dearest around 04:00 UTC (05:00 CET), 14.2% 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, Sorcerer Sash is cheapest from 20:00 to 23:00 UTC (21:00 to 00:00 CET) and dearest from 16:00 to 19:00 UTC (17:00 to 20:00 CET). Buying in the cheap hours and selling in the dear ones returns about 147% 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

20:00 to 23:00 UTC

21:00 to 00:00 CET · index 0.894 · typical 41s 88c

Best hours to sell

16:00 to 19:00 UTC

17:00 to 20:00 CET · index 1.199 · typical 1g 1s 1c

Spread after the 5% cut

+147%

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.

Sorcerer Sashby hour · PvP Horde EU

Hour (UTC)	CET	Typical	Lowest	Listings	Index	Days
00:00	01:00	47s	40s 67c	16	0.953	3
01:00	02:00	42s	40s 67c	18	0.883	3
02:00	03:00	42s	40s 67c	21	0.898	3
03:00	04:00	42s	40s 67c	16	0.901	3
04:00	05:00	46s 50c	46s 50c	18	1.002	2
05:00	06:00	90s 50c	89s 50c	11	0.860	2
06:00	07:00	79s 89c	78s	10	1.098	3
07:00	08:00	43s	39s	13	0.900	3
08:00	09:00	49s 33c	39s	15	1.021	3
09:00	10:00	47s 56c	39s	13	0.987	3
10:00	11:00	52s 50c	31s 33c	15	1.082	3
11:00	12:00	66s 38c	48s	11	1.174	4
12:00	13:00	1g 8s 77c	96s 20c	11	1.093	5
13:00	14:00	1g 5s 80c	96s 20c	12	1.036	5
14:00	15:00	1g 6s 31c	93s 25c	15	0.952	4
15:00	16:00	41s 78c	28s 33c	21	0.869	3
16:00	17:00	1g 19s 3c	95s 75c	7	1.254	4
17:00	18:00	1g 39s	1g 18s 67c	6	1.369	3
18:00	19:00	45s	31s 67c	13	0.974	3
19:00	20:00	47s 83c	31s 33c	14	1.070	3
20:00	21:00	38s 14c	31s 67c	14	0.835	3
21:00	22:00	33s	31s	22	0.809	2
22:00	23:00	54s 50c	54s	13	1.038	2
23:00	00:00	47s 44c	40s 67c	16	0.943	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/9875 on the API.

The whole market by hour · PvP Horde EU

Hour (UTC)	CET	Price index	Listings index	Days
00:00	01:00	0.996	1.079	5
01:00	02:00	0.970	1.024	5
02:00	03:00	0.958	1.050	4
03:00	04:00	1.003	0.843	4
04:00	05:00	1.142	0.833	4
05:00	06:00	0.992	0.833	3
06:00	07:00	1.023	0.811	4
07:00	08:00	1.016	0.771	5
08:00	09:00	1.015	0.854	6
09:00	10:00	1.042	0.828	6
10:00	11:00	1.017	0.931	6
11:00	12:00	1.023	0.977	6
12:00	13:00	1.002	1.036	6
13:00	14:00	1.006	1.115	6
14:00	15:00	1.001	1.143	6
15:00	16:00	0.968	1.229	6
16:00	17:00	1.016	1.093	5
17:00	18:00	0.991	0.932	5
18:00	19:00	0.951	1.148	4
19:00	20:00	0.938	1.138	4
20:00	21:00	0.980	1.097	5
21:00	22:00	0.952	1.102	4
22:00	23:00	1.017	1.107	3
23:00	00:00	0.983	1.026	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), 6.2% under the daily average, and dearest around 04:00 UTC (05:00 CET), 14.2% 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 Sorcerer Sash?: On PvP Horde EU, Sorcerer Sash is cheapest from 20:00 to 23:00 UTC (21:00 to 00:00 CET) and dearest from 16:00 to 19:00 UTC (17:00 to 20:00 CET). Buying in the cheap hours and selling in the dear ones returns about 147% 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.