can I backtest an algo without a brokerage acct?  [SOLVED]

I am new to Multicharts and have some ascii data imported, I'd like to know if I can backtest algorithms without connecting to a brokerage account?

I don't need to papertrade, but I am looking through the dev guide pdf and wiki, but it seems like I might need a brokerage account to backtest too

can someone please let me know? I don't plan on having a brokerage account for a couple months, so it would really be disapointing to port my algo to multichart only to not be able to run it!

EDIT: to elaborate, I'd like to simulate orders (and slippage). If I need to extend some internal class to do this, that's fine, just please let me know it's possible!

thanks
-Jason

Hello Jason,

Our Wiki section provides detailed up-to-date information about current MultiCharts functionality. You can reference this information as the platform help guide when using both products MultiCharts and MultiCharts .NET as they have the same functionality but are using different programming languages.

Backtesting starts as soon as you apply a signal to the chart. That is not required to have a broker account in order to perform backtesting. Here is how to apply a signal to a chart:
https://www.multicharts.com/trading-sof ... ng_Studies

Backtesting results can be viewed in Strategy performance report:
https://www.multicharts.com/trading-sof ... nce_Report