Not just October. Practically every OTC stock that trades on a daily basis will have daily shorts reported to Finra. That's how MMs make a market, by completing trades right away and then settling them within the two days allowed. The shares that aren't settled within that time frame are reported to Finra as short interest. Most of the time, they're settled as well because they were never intended to be short sales since it's not economical to short trip zero tickers. And the risk is absurd since they can pop into the stratosphere with no notice or rationale. Bottom line, the shorting that's actually done for that purpose show in the short interest figures that are available at the OTCM and Nasdaq websites. They don't bother reporting the daily short figures because they don't mean anything.
Maybe this will help. It was written by a securities attorney.
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