For a flat fee of $ 30 per quarter, the program allows you to buy and sell US securities without paying the usual retail
spread on the currency conversion.
Not exact matches
And
on top of that once you sell a security they forcefully convert it back to Canadian dollars at a «reasonable rate», problem is that also with
conversion of
currency there is a
spread, so you end up getting hit anyways.
This was a question I was asking myself in an earlier post
on canadiancapitalist.com If you incur that
currency conversion hit, that's a one time 2 % hit you're taking
on the switch (assuming a one point
spread)