Extract text from HST files
To convert your HST file to another format, you need MetaTrader 4 or other Data software.
To convert other file formats to the "Financial Data Log" file type, you need software like MetaTrader 4 or a similar tool.
The .HST file extension is most prominently utilized by MetaTrader 4, the industry-standard trading platform for Forex and CFDs. These files serve as local databases storing historical price data (Open, High, Low, Close, and Volume) for financial instruments across specific timeframes (e.g., M1, H1, D1). While critical for charting and offline analysis, .HST files are stored in a proprietary binary format that cannot be opened directly in standard spreadsheet software like Microsoft Excel or text editors. This lock-in is a common headache for traders and analysts who need to perform quantitative backtesting, export data to Python, or merge datasets from different brokers.
To unlock this data, users must convert .HST files to universally compatible formats like CSV or XLSX. Beyond finance, the extension is also used by industrial systems like Danfoss System Managers and Bosch Fire Panels to log event histories. These variants are similarly restricted, often requiring proprietary vendor tools to view.
Convert.Guru analyzes your HST file, detects the exact format, and lets you read the text inside.
Users also converted CSV, TMP, CCP, TXT, PAGES, MHTML, GZ, DAT, BIN, ZIP, SLDDRW, PKG and ACSM files.
If you want to convert HST file to EST, CST, PST, IST, CDT, CSV, GMT, UTC, MST, JSON, XML or YAML, you can use MetaTrader 4 or similar software from the "Financial Chart History" category. In the File menu, look for Save As… or Export….
To convert DBF, XML, SQLITE, XLSX, SQL, TSV, ACCDB, YAML, MDB, CSV, ODS or JSON files to HST, try MetaTrader 4 or another comparable tool in the "Financial Chart History" category.
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 HST converter.