What do you mean by "-ve"?
And you're right, a negative duration is not really possible. The actual capture of trace events is in microseconds and the GUI in Profiler displays in milliseconds. I have seen that conversion lead to problems. You can change the Profiler GUI to work with microseconds in the options.
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