Articles written by Harry P. Schlanger
All 87 articles written by Harry P. Schlanger
Roadmap to Positive Thinking in Business: How to Proactively Deal with Challenging Situations
Category: Business Management (general)
Positive thinking in business helps to resolve workplace conflicts, improves employee attitude, creativity and performance, and also enhances interpersonal relationships. more...
Healesville Animal Sanctuary: Viewing Australian Wildlife in Natural Bushland
Category: Wildlife Preservation (general)
Healesville Sanctuary is a fauna park where paths wind through different habitats showcasing koalas, wombats, dingoes, kangaroos, etc. and over 200 bird varieties. more...
How To Minimize Cell Phone Exposure: Knowing the Risks and What Basic Precautions to Take
Category: Cell Phones
Cell phone radiation can be detrimental to human health. Users need to get informed on how to avoid risk from over-exposure and adopt protective measures. more...
Internet Bullseye Marketing Explained: Planning an Internet Market Strategy
Category: Marketing Plans
Determine likelihood of selling products and services on the Internet and identify those not likely to succeed. Then modify objectives to implement a marketing strategy. more...
Organizational Change Management: Identifying Change and Consequences for Poor Management
Category: Business Management (general)
Change is one of the most inevitable and critical aspects of effective business management, requiring proper planning and implementation. more...
Understanding W.D. Gann's Price Square: Spiral of Prices Used to Forecast Market Reversals
Category: Investment (general)
Gann believed that market reversals could be expected when price constraints meet time constraints. This article examines how Gann's Price Square works. more...
Category: Investment (general)
According to master trader, W.D. Gann, one can make more profits trading in commodities than trading stocks. Anyone can do it, provided they follow the rules... more...
Category: Investment (general)
A detrending approach to finding market time cycles is simple and reasonably accurate. Two tools are used in combination: moving average and deviations from raw data. more...
Category: Investment (general)
In 1987, Larry Williams turned $10.000 to $1.1 million in a highly publicized real time trading championship. Many traders are now adopting his trading ideas. more...
Trading Rules of Jesse Livermore: Words of Wisdom from One of the World's Greatest Traders
Category: Investment (general)
Jesse Livermore won and lost fortunes trading. He died aged 63 as a result of suicide, due to a loss of confidence in trading. At that time he was worth $5 million. more...
Category: Investment (general)
When a trade sours at the outset, the time comes to exit the trade. Trading stops automate this task, thereby not allowing decisions clouded by emotional judgement. more...
Category: Investment (general)
Traders will sometimes be caught up in common hysteria - just at a time when contrary thinking is truly appropriate. What causes the rational mind to follow the herd? more...
Category: Investment (general)
The efficient market model is examined and compared to a new fractal model better suited to actual investor behavior for different time horizons in the markets. more...
Dow Theory Explained: Using the Principle of Trend Confirmation between Two Stock Indices
Category: Investment (general)
Dow theory was created as a leading indicator of the business cycle. It should be used to confirm or deny a market turn, and establish the direction of the primary trend. more...
Category: Investment (general)
Dynamic symmetry is suggestive of life and movement and is evidenced mathematically in botany, art and architecture. Elliott discovered it even exists in the stock market more...
Category: Food Facts
Substituting vegetable oils that contain harmful transfatty acids with traditional, healthy, saturated fats in coconut oil may lead to eradication of many diseases more...
Category: Investment (general)
The type of discipline required to trade profitably in stock markets is the same as that required to lose weight, stop smoking, or run a successful business. more...
The Chaos Game: How to Simply and Randomly Generate a Sierpinski Triangle
Category: Chaos Theory
Using a simple algorithm and a die, this game is a mathematical experiment that creates a fractal pattern of the well-known Sierpinski triangle. more...
Category: Food Facts
Food safety starts with buying foods low in bacteria. Good storage practice is keeping the fridge clean, odor-free and checking for correct storage times from food tables more...
Choosing Trading Style in Financial Markets: Day Trading or Position Trading Philosophy?
Category: Investment (general)
Trading timeframe depends on the trader's own psychological profile and involves having an understanding of the speculative, sentiment-driven issues of securities. more...
Category: Investment (general)
A stock trader obviously needs basic trading skills, however; most of all, a well documented trading plan listing trading style, strategies, tactics and money management. more...
Category: Everyday Chemistry
This bicarbonate is known under a variety of names including baking soda. It is cheap, versatile and useful around the home, kitchen, for the body and medicinal purposes. more...
Inhabitants of Kingdom Fungi: Focus on Molds and Yeasts and their Good and Bad Aspects
Category: Mycology
Fungi grow pervasively on the face of the planet. There are over 100,000 species, many of which are beneficial to humans but some may be harmful and even cause death. more...
Category: Database Programming
When not properly linked, badly connected tables can cause inefficiency to data retrieval. Eventually the database needs to be fixed by hand, at cost. more...
Happy Birthday Mr President: A Tribute to President John F Kennedy and Marilyn Munroe
Category: World Music (general)
Marilyn Munroe sang Happy Birthday to the President of the United States, John F. Kennedy on his 45th birthday at Madison Square Garden, May 19, 1962. Listen to the song. more...
Category: World Music (general)
Lili Marlene is a song based on a German poem of 1915 and turned to music in 1938. It became the favorite of troops of every nation during the Second World War. more...
Category: Olympic Swimming
Melanie Schlanger's Beijing 2008 performance, where she competed in the 100m and 200m women's freestyle relays for Australia. more...
Aloe Vera for a Wide Range of Health Benefits: Nature's Most Impressive Healing Medicinal Herb
Category: Herbal Properties/Benefits
People know of Aloe Vera for its topical uses, believing it good only for skin and sunburns. In reality, it is useful for a wide range of both external and internal uses more...
Category: Quantum Physics
The German physicist Philipp Lenard performed the earliest, definitive studies of the photoelectric effect. Later, Albert Einstein gave a solid explanation of the effect. more...
Sound Recording and Reproduction: Design and Operation of Microphones and Loudspeakers
Category: Recording Engineering
The first and last links in a studio HiFi system are the microphone and loudspeaker. Designs are based on simple electrical and electromagnetic effects. more...
Diffraction of Sound Waves: The Bending of Pressure Waves Around Obstacles or Narrow Openings
Category: Physics (general)
Why is it, that if a person hides from us around the corner of a building, this person can still hear the sounds we make, even if there are no reflecting surfaces nearby? more...
Power Transmission and Usage: Supplying Cities with Electrical Energy from Remote Power Plants
Category: Electricity & Magnetism
How can power be transmitted from the generating station to the users over large distances? How much of this power is lost and how is cost of consumption calculated? more...
Elements of Making Digital Short Films: Produce Quality Videos using User-Friendly Editing Software
Category: Video Editing
With the right, but relatively inexpensive equipment, anyone can produce a professional looking video and publish it on the web. more...
Electromagnetic Induction: Michael Faraday's Famous Experiment of Inducing Current in a Coil
Category: Electricity & Magnetism
Why is it when a magnet is moved in the direction of a copper wire coil, a current can then be measured in the coil? more...
Basic Properties of Magnets: Observation and Source of Magnetism in Iron Objects
Category: Electricity & Magnetism
Magnets are fascinating objects for anyone ranging from the child to the engineer. They can be a source of fun and we can also probe and quantify their curious properties more...
Category: Physics (general)
A diode consists of p-type and n-type semiconductor materials joined together. One may approximate an "ideal" diode to a switch and simplify analysis of simple circuits. more...
Category: Database Programming
An industry application written in Access 2007 is presented for inspection to learn how applications can be made more professional, using macros and VBA programming. more...
Social Networking Websites: Myspace and Facebook Represent Social Revolution and Evolution
Category: Internet (general)
Hundreds of social networking websites exist, such as Myspace, Facebook and Digg. These types are evolving from just providing content, to users offering practical help. more...
Create Unique MySpace Profiles: Embellish Personal Web Pages Using HTML Scripts and Simple Tricks
Category: Internet (general)
Anyone registered with MySpace can enhance their standard profile page by transferring HTML script copied from suppliers. Only a basic knowledge of coding is required. more...
Basic Searching for Prime Numbers: How to Sieve Primes and Examine their Use in Encryption
Category: Math
The Sieve of Eratosthenes is a simple search technique for finding prime numbers. Primes have been in use only recently, mainly in the computer security industry. more...
Beginning Games Programming: How to Use the Free GameMaker Software and Share Games with Others
Category: Computer Programming (general)
Games programming is fun for all ages. GameMaker has a user-friendly, intuitive interface and is free to download. Make your first game and share with others on the web. more...
Time Series Photography Challenge: Taking Single Exposures That Give Suggestion of Elapsed Time
Category: Photography Techniques
Time series photography starts with a rule to be followed. Exposures are taken at regular intervals and time elapsed is exhibited by showing a clock in the photographs. more...
Olympics Facts and Figures: Facts and Figures needed for the Games of the XXIX Olympiad
Category: Olympic/Paralympic Sport (general)
Information for fans looking for official Beijing 2008 Olympics competitions and results. Also, data on world rankings and published world and Olympic records. more...
Using Mail Merge in MS Office 2007: A How-to Tutorial for Microsoft Publisher and Microsoft Word
Category: Office/Business Software
Inserting data repeatedly from a list into a form letter? Microsoft Office automates this task using Mail Merge. Use Help and powerful Wizards to make the job even easier more...
Origins of the Koala: Icon of Australian Culture
Category: Endangered Species
The koala has large fluffy ears, a spoon-nose and bright button eyes. Historically, it has been a victim of 'progress' and the fur trade, but is now an endangered species more...
A Biography of Leonhard Euler: Great Swiss Mathematician and Physicist
Category: Great Scientists
Euler produced more work and of high quality than any other mathematician in history. His contemporaries dubbed him "Analysis Incarnate." more...
Gaspard Monge: French Mathematician and Inventor of Descriptive Geometry
Category: Great Scientists
Monge's mathematics research laid the foundations of modern descriptive geometry, a field essential to mechanical and architectural drawing. more...
Henri Poincaré: French Mathematician and Theoretical Physicist
Category: Great Scientists
Poincaré was arguably one of the most important persons in the history of science, making contributions in many fields - chaos theory, relativity and optics to name a few more...
W.D. Gann's Time Constraints on Market Prices: When the Spiral of Prices Meets the Cycle of Time
Category: Investment (general)
The most influential aspect of Gann's work was his observation that time is a major constraint on price movements. When time "runs out" the market is ready for a reversal more...
Category: Precious Metals Investing
Technical analysis of the Dow/Gold chart reveals long-wave business cycles, allowing smart investors to position themselves when to start buying either gold or equities. more...
Category: Investment (general)
Price and time relationships are known to occur at market reversals. Some traders have contributed to recent new knowledge in the science of forecasting market reversals. more...
Category: Investment (general)
Markets are like many other natural phenomena; they move in ebb and flow. Measuring their time cycles can assess the probability of a market making a trend reversal. more...
More Trading Rules of Jesse Livermore: The Way to Trade by One of the World's Greatest Traders
Category: Investment (general)
Jesse Livermore was an extraordinary short-term market trader. He is known for having made and lost many fortunes trading. Here are more of his rules... more...
Category: Investment (general)
The accuracy of Gann's market predictions raised him to legendary status among his peers and his life achievements are still revered by traders today. more...
Setting Stop-Loss in Trading Financial Markets: Controlling Risk and Protecting Trading Capital
Category: Investment (general)
Setting stop-loss exit points is often overlooked in the art of trading markets. Yet, having an exit is one of the most important considerations in designing a trade. more...
Category: Investment (general)
Technical indicators are price, time or volume-based mathematical formulas used to evaluate price activity, analyze the market to select stocks and make trading decisions more...
Category: Investment (general)
Before the Elliott Wave Principle can be used for trading the markets, the Elliott technician must learn well its basic tenets and governing rules of construction. more...
Which Analysis Philosophy in Financial Markets?: Fundamental Analysis vs. Technical Analysis
Category: Investment (general)
Fundamental analysis studies underlying value, whereas technical analysis focuses on price, as affected by forces of supply and demand. more...
Category: Investment (general)
Ralph Elliott spent retirement convalescing. During this time he discovered pattern and predictability in the US share market, and formulated his famous Wave Principle. more...
Category: Investment (general)
For people who don't mind taking a reasonable risk, or even enjoy risk, the Zurich axioms are a philosophy for risk-taking and its management. more...
What is a Market Trading System?: Using Methodology and Discipline to Trade Stock Markets
Category: Investment (general)
Simplistically, a trading system is a tried and tested method to enter and exit a market for a profit or loss. In the long run the wins should outweigh the losses. more...
A Computer Program for the Chaos Game: Using MS Access 2007 to Generate the Sierpinski Triangle
Category: Windows Programming
Copying and pasting a few program steps into an Access 2007 report and previewing, generates the self-similar Sierpinski fractal. Then it's a simple matter to experiment. more...
Category: Futures Investing
Futures contracts are highly leveraged financial instruments and are a feature of trading commodities. Traders can buy long or sell short in a number of market sectors. more...
Where Have All the Flowers Gone?: Background to Marlene Dietrich’s Language Versions
Category: World Music (general)
This Pete Seeger anti-war song of the 60s was first performed by Marlene Dietrich. It's universal message of peace in the world did not get lost in its many translations. more...
Category: Investment (general)
New traders should prepare well before trading. Important tips are offered, including use of a "helper" friend to oversee and safeguard against possible financial ruin. more...
The Budwig Diet for Cancer Treatment: A Water-Soluble Oil Health Supplement that Repairs Cell Walls
Category: Cancer
A remarkable simple mix of flaxseed oil and low fat cottage cheese is the masterstroke for repairing the body against a host of diseases, including all forms of cancer. more...
Category: Cancer
Oncologist Dr. T Simoncini discovered cancer treatments with antifungal medicine. The most powerful antifungal is both inexpensive and unpatentable - sodium bicarbonate. more...
Microsoft HTML Help Workshop (HHW): User Documentation Support for Desktop Applications
Category: Computer Programming (general)
HHW is a free documentation project for producing an external Help module, which can be called from the main program application or from any MS Office product. more...
Category: Herbal Properties/Benefits
Chlorella is a green algae with many health benefits, including improving the immunity system and removing heavy metals from the blood in a process called chelation. more...
Category: Herbal Properties/Benefits
St John's Wort is used to relax and soothe the psyche with minimal side effects and is widely used as herbal remedy for treating nerves. more...
Category: Herbal Properties/Benefits
Spirulina looks and smells like one might find it at the bottom of an aquarium; however, this fresh-water plant derives its energy from sunlight through photosynthesis. more...
Biography of Philipp Lenard: Nobel Physicist Famous for His Photoelectric Effect Investigation
Category: Great Scientists
Philipp Lenard's major contribution to science was in the study of cathode rays, for which he won a Nobel Prize in Physics in 1905. more...
Interference of Coherent Light Waves: Young's Double-Slit Formula Used for Measurement of Wavelength
Category: Physics (general)
Young demonstrated a simple relationship between wavelength of light and the physical dimensions of the experimental setup, allowing for simple measurements of wavelength more...
Measuring Sound Intensity and Loudness: Adopting the Decibel Scale to Objectively Measure Sound
Category: Physics (general)
The decibel meter measures sound pressure levels at a distance from the source. Its response is modeled on the human ear, which perceives loudness in logarithmic fashion. more...
Category: Physics (general)
Sounds are pressure waves reaching our hearing apparatus by the movement of surrounding air molecules. Studying waves helps us to understand basic transport mechanisms. more...
Working Principle of the Electronic Transformer: Central Component in any Power Supply
Category: Electricity & Magnetism
Transformers are commonly made by winding two coils around an iron core. Their function? Supply voltages needed to drive a myriad of electronic gadgets and equipment. more...
Advances in High Speed Cruise Missiles: Technological Marvels are the Deadliest Anti-Ship Weapons
Category: Aerospace Engineering
Cruise missiles strive for incredible hypersonic speeds and low altitude stealth delivery to pierce the defenses of target ships. more...
The Electromagnetic Field: Discovery of Magnetic Force Leads to Electric Motor Invention
Category: Electricity & Magnetism
An electric current creates a curling magnetic field. When placed in an external field, a force acts on the wire. This magnetic force is what drives the electric motor. more...
The Origins of Petroleum: A Look at the Inorganic Abiotic and Organic Fossil Fuels Theories
Category: Geology/Ecology (general)
Did crude oil originate from inorganic constituents deep in the mantle of the earth? Or, was genesis from organic material lying at relatively lower depths. more...
Category: Drought/Heat Waves
Research suggests the Australian drought is not caused by climate change. Households are burdened by water shortages but water is diverted towards wrong agriculture. more...
Using Macros in MS Office 2007: How to Automate Common or Routine Everyday MS Office Tasks
Category: Office/Business Software
Macros are available across the full range of MS Office 2007 products. Described are ease of learning, writing and running macros, and security risks. more...
Viewing Custom Images on MySpace: Using HTML Scripts to Link Images Stored on Photobucket Website
Category: Internet (general)
Users of MySpace wishing to view their own Profile images can store images on a hosting site such as Photobucket, then link to them using generated HTML script. more...
Searching for Mersenne Primes: People May Participate to Find the Next Very Large Prime Number
Category: Math
There are only 44 known Mersenne primes. GIMPS provides free software for people to search for the next Mersenne Prime and may claim award prize money if successful. more...
Category: Business Project Management
GanttProject is free user friendly project management software for private or business use. New users may view an online video tutorial to fastrack producing results. more...
Creating MS Access Relationships: How to Correctly Design and Link Tables with Referential Integrity
Category: Office/Business Software
A database design begins with identifying entities from business data. Tables are designed following conventions, and linked. Only then are tables populated with data. more...
Create Panoramic Photographs: Stitch Together Photos Taken With Any Digital Camera
Category: Landscape Photography
Beginning photographers can create inexpensive, knockout panoramic views with a simple digital camera by stitching photos in a standard graphics program like MS Paint. more...
Melanie Schlanger in Time-Trials: Australian Freestyle Swimmer Bound for Beijing 2008 Olympics
Category: Olympic Swimming
Melanie Schlanger is one of at least four Australian women to compete in the 100m freestyle time-trials for Beijing 2008. Only two women are selected per individual race more...
