First of all, I do admit that I have never used Metaswing even though I had the Metastock version 4.0 about 10+ years ago. I was made aware of its possibilites only just a couple of days ago.
When I last checked Optuma 1.6 two years ago, which was downloaded here, ND Research was not activated. It was activated in the earlier Market Analyst 8. Perhaps, we do have different copies of Optuma 1.6. However, for Market Analyst 8, I was not able to connect to live data, specifically Forex data. (in fact I did not knew that ND Research was Metaswing indicators until now) I have since uninstalled Optuma 1.6 and Market Analyst 8 some time back.