This week was a little different.

I started the week trading from home. By Wednesday, I was making a trade from the airport while waiting to leave for Europe. And by Thursday, I was managing positions from Europe after an overnight flight and a pretty significant change in time zones.

The location changed.

The process didn't.

I completed seven option transactions this week and generated $2,466.31 in net option proceeds after commissions and fees.

I'm very pleased with that result, but this week was also a good test of something I've been thinking about since starting Options Income Journal.

Could I continue managing my positions and documenting my actual trades without allowing it to interfere with everything else I'm doing?

So far, the answer is yes.

Monday began with two rolls on INTC (Intel).

I own 200 shares and have been managing the two 100-share blocks separately.

I rolled my September 18 $100 call out to the September 23 $100 call, generating $96.67 in net proceeds.

On the other 100 shares, I rolled my September 18 $105 call out to September 23 and moved the strike down to $103. That trade generated another $131.68 net.

Moving the strike from $105 down to $103 meant giving up $2 per share of potential upside if those shares are called away. In return, I received additional premium and still have an assignment price above my $99.84 stock cost basis.

That's a trade-off I was comfortable making.

The two INTC rolls generated $228.35 net for the week.

MU (Micron Technology) was once again my biggest premium producer.

On Monday, MU was showing relative strength despite an otherwise weak market. Rather than waiting until the September 16 expiration, I took advantage of the opportunity and rolled my $965 call out two days to September 18.

That generated $568.66 net.

Then came Wednesday.

I was at the airport preparing to leave for Europe when another opportunity developed.

I rolled the September 18 $965 call out to September 23 and, this time, was able to move the strike up to $970 while still collecting a $9.04 credit.

After fees, that trade generated $902.63.

I liked the economics of that roll. I collected substantial additional premium while also increasing my potential sale price by $5 per share—or another $500—if the shares are eventually called away.

Between the two rolls, MU generated $1,471.29 in net proceeds this week.

And yes, I made the the 2nd trade from the airport.

In fact, this week turned out to be a pretty good test of the whole Options Income Journal concept. I made the MU trade while waiting for my flight, wrote up the Trade Alert, and had it posted shortly afterward. I had a brief connection issue with my phone, switched to my computer, and the whole process still took only about 10 minutes.

That was encouraging. One of my goals with Options Income Journal has been to keep it simple enough that documenting my trades doesn't become a job in itself. I want to be able to trade when an opportunity appears, tell subscribers what I did and why, and then get on with the rest of my day.

A few hours later, I was on my way to Europe.

By Thursday, I had arrived in Europe.

That afternoon, three opportunities developed fairly close together.

I rolled my SPCX (SpaceX) September 18 $152.50 call out one week to September 25 at the same strike. That generated $288.67 net.

I rolled my TSLA (Tesla) September 18 $365 call out to September 23 at the same $365 strike, generating another $433.67 net.

And I rolled my WMT (Walmart) September 18 $110 call out one week to September 25, again keeping the same strike. That generated $44.33 net.

Together, those three rolls produced $766.67 in net proceeds.

All three trades happened close together, so I handled them together rather than treating them as three completely separate events.

The important thing to me was that I wasn't trading differently because I was traveling. I looked at the same things I would have looked at from home—the position, the strike, the time remaining and the premium available—and made the decisions I thought made sense.

There was one other position I was watching Thursday: SOFI (SoFi Technologies).

I had six September 18 $18.50 calls outstanding against my 600 shares.

Those calls were well out of the money as expiration approached.

I could have looked for another trade simply because the calls were expiring.

I didn't.

There wasn't an attractive reason for me to roll them, so I let all six calls expire.

That leaves my 600 SOFI shares uncovered again, and I'll wait for another opportunity to sell calls when the combination of strike and premium makes sense to me.

I think this is an important part of options trading that sometimes gets overlooked.

Doing nothing is also a decision.

I don't need to have an option outstanding against every share every day.

Here's where the primary positions stand going into the coming week:

This snapshot also gives me a pretty good roadmap for the coming week.

Since I started documenting these trades for Options Income Journal, my weekly net option proceeds have been:

September 1–4: $2,544.66
September 8–10: $2,981.18
September 15–18: $2,466.31

That's $7,992.15 in net option proceeds over the first three weeks.

I'm pleased with the results, but I don't expect every week to look like these three weeks.

There will be slower weeks. There will be weeks when the opportunities simply aren't there. There will also be trades that don't work as smoothly as I would like.

That's part of trading.

My objective isn't to hit a particular weekly number. It's to continue making trades where I'm comfortable with the risk, the premium and the possible outcome.

If last week's theme was opportunity rather than activity, this week put that idea to a real-world test.

On Monday, INTC and MU gave me opportunities.

On Wednesday, another MU opportunity appeared while I was sitting at the airport.

On Thursday, SPCX, TSLA and WMT all gave me opportunities within a relatively short period of time.

SOFI didn't.

So I left it alone.

That's really the entire process.

I'm watching the market and my positions, and I'm looking for opportunities. If it's there, it's there. Otherwise, I wait.

Whether I'm sitting at my desk at home, waiting for a flight at the airport or traveling through Europe doesn't change that.

The location changed. The process didn't.

Several positions now have September 23 and September 25 expirations, so I'll continue watching MU, TSLA, INTC, SPCX and WMT.

SOFI is uncovered again, so I'll also be watching for another opportunity there.

And I'll continue doing all of this while traveling.

I'm not going into the week with a target number of trades or a certain amount of premium I need to generate.

I'll watch the positions.

If an opportunity makes sense, I'll take it.

If it doesn't, I'll wait.

There will always be another trade.

Options Income Journal documents my own trading activity, including actual trades, fills and results. It is not investment advice or a recommendation to buy or sell any security. I don't know your financial situation, objectives or risk tolerance, and you should make your own decisions regarding your investments.