OK, so not really a package but I didn’t know where else to put it.
I’ve been developing a backtesting software made with Julia and distributed basically as a sysimage with the REPL included.
You can read up on it and download the beta here: testfiresoftware.com
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But it’s not. You can see I’ve been a member here for a long time.
OK, than sorry, but a text leading to click on an https://testfiresoftware.com/ address, you’ll have to agree that is suspicious.
Yes I agee 
No harm done. It’s also of course a bit suspicious to download a random zip file from there. However, anyone curious can just have a look att the documentation etc and then make up their mind. The risk then is zero.
I don’t see how this is clickbait - as far as I can tell the link does exactly what OP says it does.
Congrats on the beta release, would be great to see some more quant finance uptake in Julia!
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Yeah, we don’t have a prohibition against non-free software here, but caution when downloading arbitrary executables is always warranted — even if it’s nominally open source!
I think this sort of announcement is just fine to make here, even if it’s not a package per se.
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