There are various indexes on the stock market that track the currencies.  Though it is different than Forex (probably less leverage), you may be able to get the effects you're looking for.  I don't have a lot of knowledge in this area, but looked some into FXE, to trade the Euro debt crisis.  Here's an article on Forex, putting FXE down (obviously a biased view, but perhaps will give you a starting point for comparison, should you want to trade something specific, like the current euro/dollar situation).

Layman's guide to getting started with Forex (foreign exchange trading)?
Is there an elegant way for sending e-mails using a Service Broker service/queue?

I want to setup an EVENT NOTIFICATION for SQL Server, and I'd like to send e-mails to operators for each message on the queue.

According to the book SQL Server 2005 DBA Street Smarts: A Real World Guide to SQL Server 2005 Certification Skills, Database Mail uses the Service Broker:


  Additionaly, Database Mail is scalable because it uses the Service Broker queue, which allows the requests to be handled asynchronously and even saves the request if the server goes down before it can be handled.


Maybe I'm too off base here, but, is there a way I can send messages directly to the Database Mail queue using Service Broker?

If I have to set up a stored procedure for sending an e-mail on behalf of Service Broker, I think it should be easier to just setup a job on the SQL Server Agent to check for the events I'm interested in inside the error log and send the operators an e-mail.

I'm open to suggestions.
