Click the "Select File" button above, and choose your HST file.
You’ll see a preview, if available.
Click the "Convert file to..." button to extract text information.
Convert HST to another file type
To convert HST history files to another format, you need MetaTrader 4 or other Data software.
Convert a file to HST
To convert other file formats to the "Trading History File" file type, you need software like MetaTrader 4 or a similar tool.
About HST files
The .HST file format is primarily a historical financial chart data file used by trading platforms like MetaTrader 4. It stores historical price quotes for assets, typically including Open, High, Low, Close, and Volume (OHLCV) data. Various industrial systems, including Citect SCADA, Bosch FPA, and Danfoss System Manager, also use the .HST extension to store event logs and sensor history. These files are notoriously frustrating because they are proprietary binary formats locked to their specific software ecosystem. They are not natively supported by standard web browsers, text editors, or data analysis software. Quantitative analysts and engineers frequently need to convert these files to perform custom research, run backtests in Python, or share logs. The most practical conversion targets are .CSV or .TXT, which extract the raw tabular data. Converting to .XLSX is also highly requested for analysis in Microsoft Excel. Be aware that platform-specific metadata or indexing structures are always lost when exporting to plain text. Standard online converters consistently fail with .HST files because they cannot parse the compiled binary blobs without the original software's proprietary engine. Drag and drop your file to convert.guru to see what it is and convert it if supported. Our tool inspects the file signature to identify the exact origin. If our analysis detects a supported underlying format, such as an embedded SQLite database used by some optimization tools, viewing or conversion may still be possible.
Convert.Guru analyzes your HST file, detects the exact format, and lets you read the text inside.
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 "Historical Financial Data Storage" 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 "Historical Financial Data Storage" category.
The HST Converter Story
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.