USD or non USD currency account

Hi everybody,
For a Canadian resident how is better (currency wise) to open an account on an USA broker :
1. open an USD account and exchange from CAD to USD when making a deposit and from USD to CAD when withdraw funds
or
2. open a CAD account and work in CAD ?

It is much better to have it in your home currency. When you transfer funds to your broker-account in a foreign currency, banks rip you off with fees and the retail-exchangerate. Also your funds are exposed to the long-term usd/cad risk. If you really need and USD account, you can convert your CADs into USDs on a broker-platform with a few pips spread, much cheaper than your bank would do it. That is if your broker supports different accounts in different currencies. IB or oanda for example do that.

i am with stifx and if i deposit with them in EUR and they cover CAD deposit too as i know, we can easily convert it back to USD in the platform if required by asking them. As when i used to deposit in EUR, i used to convert it in USD, no fees were charged to me, And also when i send wire transfer no bank fee too, which is great.
IB and Oanda are good too as well.

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