text: If you did not convert currency from CDN to US when the dollar was at par of above, it does this every 20 years or so and will again  you missed, so you can buy Canadian companies that do a fair amount of US business and avoid the traders taking any of your money. I put 25% in US at 80cents plus the 3 cents the banks charge and will come back out after we have a couple of US rate increase. I will also sell all my other US stocks bought back when we were at par.  I will increase my exposure to oil, minerals and banks all who depend on the US to do well and wait for par again. If it does not happen than I will not travel to the US to reduce my need for US $. There are lots of other places, like last year we went to Portugal instead of Scotsdale so it is quite easy to manage because the TSX and DOW will also line up as well.