Extract text from HCC files
To convert your HCC file to another format, you need MetaTrader 5 or other Data software.
To convert other file formats to the "Financial Chart Data" file type, you need software like MetaTrader 5 or a similar tool.
The .HCC format is primarily associated with MetaTrader, specifically utilized as a History Cache Collection file. These binary files automatically accumulate high-frequency trading data (Open, High, Low, Close, Volume) in the background to speed up chart rendering. The main frustration for traders is that .HCC files are proprietary and locked; you cannot simply double-click them to view your trading history in Microsoft Excel or import them into third-party backtesting engines.
A secondary but significant use case involves the HTTP Catcher iOS app, where .HCC files serve as configuration archives for debugging web traffic and defining URL rewrite rules. These are often shared to bypass app restrictions or modify requests.
For traders, the goal is typically extracting the data. Converting .HCC to CSV or XLSX is essential for conducting external technical analysis or archiving trade history. For network engineers using HTTP Catcher, converting the encrypted or binary configuration to JSON or TXT allows for manual editing of rewrite rules and easier sharing between devices. Without conversion, these files remain opaque binary blobs that are useless outside their parent applications.
Convert.Guru analyzes your HCC file, detects the exact format, and lets you read the text inside.
Users also converted HC, HEIC, CSV, EDDX, PNG, HST, SRV and EX4 files.
The history of Convert.Guru began over 25 years ago in California with Tom Simondi’s file-format database. A former contributor to Space Shuttle development and a software pioneer of the 1980s, Simondi established a trusted resource for file type analysis that was even referenced by Microsoft Windows XP. Today, we use modern technology to process and convert thousands of file formats while continually improving our HCC converter.