What do I say in the interview?

>UK, non-finance degree, don't have a lot of finance knowledge
>applied for a certain bank for a summer role, got rejected
>did very well on an online trading competition sponsored by that bank
>only did well through luck
>have an interview with them soon because of doing well (for an internship next year)

What should I say if they ask me what my trading strategy or approach was? I'm pretty sure trading stocks is luck (especially when the time frame is less than 1 month), but will they want me to make up some dumb reason?

I don't see my lack of finance knowledge as anything bad, it's just that if I try to bs some technicals to do with the stocks then I'd be found out really quickly. I know what an IB does and what the divisions do, of course.

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