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By Irene Aldridge -- High-frequency trading has been taking Wall Street by storm.  While no institution thoroughly tracks the performance of high-frequency funds, colloquial evidence suggests that the majority of high-frequency managers delivered positive returns in 2008, while 70% of low-frequency practitioners lost money, according to The New York Times.  


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