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Not sure if it's the case with all TFSA accounts but with Questrade, you're not allowed to have foreign cash. It's all CDN. When you buy USD equities, it'll show a negative amount USD. It then exchanges enough CDN to cover the USD.
Same if you sell. It'll show you have USD after you sell but it converts it back to CDN. If you play the dividend game, you have to make sure you reinvest it before it gets exchanged to CDN otherwise, you'll get dinged with forex twice. Or... setup a DRIP and not worry about it.
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