Overview
When you subscribe to USD accounts for your self-directed stock trading accounts, we'll automatically add a USD account to each of your eligible accounts.
To add funds to a USD account, you can either link a USD account and directly deposit USD into your account, or convert your Canadian Dollar cash balance into U.S. Dollars. There is a 1.5% currency conversion fee on top of the Wealthsimple Investments Inc. corporate exchange rate to convert your funds from CAD to USD.
Understanding the 1.5% currency conversion fee
If you have USD accounts, you pay a 1.5% currency conversion fee only when you convert funds between CAD and USD.
If you don't have USD accounts, you pay the 1.5% currency conversion fee every time you buy or sell a security. For example:
- You decide to convert $100 CAD to USD
- In this example, the corporate exchange rate for converting Canadian to U.S. dollars is 0.8
- With a 1.5% currency conversion fee, the total foreign exchange rate becomes 0.788 (FX rate of 0.8 * (1 - 0.015)
- You receive $78.80 USD
- You’ve paid $1.20 USD in currency conversion fees
- You decide to convert $100 USD to CAD
- In this example, the corporate exchange rate for converting U.S. Dollars to Canadian Dollars is 1.3
- With a 1.5% currency conversion fee, the total foreign exchange rate becomes 1.2805 (FX rate of 1.3 * (1 - 0.015))
- You receive $128.05 CAD
- You’ve paid $1.95 CAD in currency conversion fees
Convert funds between CAD and USD in your account
You must subscribe to USD accounts before you can convert funds between CAD to USD.
- Open the Wealthsimple app on your mobile device
- Tap on the Move tab at the bottom of the screen
- Select Exchange CAD and USD
- Choose the account in which you'd like to convert funds
- Tap the drop-down menu at the top of the screen to convert CAD to USD or USD to CAD
- Enter an amount to convert and Continue
- Review the details and tap Submit conversion
- Log in to your Wealthsimple account
- Select Move from the top menu
- Select Exchange CAD and USD
- Select either CAD to USD or USD to CAD
- Choose an account and an amount
- Select Continue
- Review and submit your conversion request
More details
- You can convert an unlimited amount of funds from CAD to USD.
- You can only convert funds between a paired CAD and USD account. For example, you can convert funds from a CAD TFSA to a USD TFSA, but not from a CAD TFSA to a USD RRSP.
- You can view your currency conversion history in your account activity.
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