Third. Good. Here the market dictates its will. The gray market is exactly in the middle between the best buy rates and the best sell rates in official exchanges. For example, if the best buying rate at Bank X is 63 rubles per dollar and the best selling rate is 66 rubles, the gray market is around 64.5 rubles. It becomes clear why people who need to buy 50-100 thousand dollars want to save.
Curious nuance. Currency comes to us from the West. It’s the cheapest in Moscow, and then gets more expensive the further east you move. From Yekaterinburg to Novosibirsk and then to Omsk. Logistics. Although it is cheaper in Novosibirsk. They also bring them from Kazakhstan. Let it be for now.
Fourth. Liquid assets. According to available information, at least 300-350 thousand dollars pass through Yekaterinburg a day. Minimum. There are large wholesalers ready to find even half a million. As far as I know, it is impossible to withdraw such a volume in any bank without a preliminary order in a couple of days. Moreover, the bank will not sell them to you without an explanation on the topic: where do you get so much money from. And even if he sells, he will know how much, to whom and when.
