Just wait until I deposit my thesis, and I ‘ll publish the findings of the customer assessement of online brokers and we’ll see than on each criteria who is ranked first, and the difference in perception between light user and heavy user.
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I have very little need to wash trade now — rebalancing is typically achieved by channeling new savings into the asset class that is below target. Even in the brutal bear market of 2008-09, I didn’t need to sell anything to rebalance.

I’m not sure what you can do about dividends though. Dividends are automatically converted to CAD. You can’t wash them even with a TDW account. I don’t worry too much about it though — for a 3% dividend yield, conversion costs 3 basis points (1% of 3%).

Just wondering about the wash trades – do you no longer worry about currency conversion fees now you are at RBC? or do you maintain some US holdings over at TDW?

I’ve been thinking about setting up an account there simply for that option – I don’t sell often, but having my US dividends chipped away from that fee is a pain in my back-end.