So I've been acquiring a bit of DASH (formerly Darkcoin)
Here's what I like about it:
On fundamentals:
1) its the only alt traded at high volume bitfinex besides LTC
2) it has 1/3 the coin supply of BTC; 1/8th the supply of LTC an its trading at par with LTC to the USD
3) its currently #4 in market cap behind BTC LTC and XRP
On technical merit: (its not a shit coin)
1) its has a focus on privacy that BTC LTC and obviously XRP lack
2) its designed to be asic resistant
3) its credit card FAST
https://www.dashpay.io/instantx/
4) there's more than enough white paper to let you know the coin devs mean business.
Now... on technical analysis (which is all I really care about

) :
Here's 12h SMA 30/60/90/150. You can see DRKUSD made a "Green Dragon Cross" about 10 days ago and has since settled out from its initial spike. DRKBTC is making a "Green Dragon CRoss" today; meaning 30>60>90>150. These crosses tend to persist for 8 weeks or more.
here's
DASH to LTC (Litecoin) ratio at cryptsy on 3d candles:
Note the bounce at the bottom.
Zooming in on that bounce on 8h candles:
Now admittedly finer resolutions of DRK/LTC ratio is pretty pink noise... but 3d and 8h shows a clear reversal; I can't pull up moving averages but I expect, if I could plot DRK/LTC on 12h and add in 12h 30/60/90/150 I'd see either an impending or realized "Green Dragon" cross; meaning DRK is bulling not only Bitcoin and the USD but its back to bulling Litecoin as well.
Given Bitcoin is a green dragon; litecoin is bouncing out of despair and dark is bulling them both: I see a quantitatively gorgeous leveraged bet.
Dash is relatively small in terms of daily trade volume however there are three solid avenues for aquiring coins without pushing the market:
Bitfinex offers "hidden orders" for both drkusd and drkbtc; so you can be a hidden wall of iceberg support for a price level and just let people sell into you; I susepect if you keep your hidden buy wall near the top side margin on 30m you'd have no trouble aquiring 1000 DASH overnight.
Also at Cryptsy; I suspect buying anything under 1:1 DRKLTC parity would net you a 1000 coins within a few hours of manual accumulation.
Like any investment nothing is assured when trading DRK; this is a HIGHLY VOLATILE asset; it has been as much as 3X to as little as 0.3X the value of LTC in the past 90 days; this said I think buying at parity after the bounce from 0.3X is a cozy entry.
websites:
http://dashcoin.net/
https://www.dashpay.io/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dash_(cryptocurrency)
charts:
https://bitcoinwisdom.com/markets/cryptsy/drkbtc
https://bitcoinwisdom.com/markets/bitfinex/drkusd
https://bitcoinwisdom.com/markets/bitfinex//drkbtc
http://coinmarketcap.com/currencies/dash/#charts
https://poloniex.com/exchange#btc_dash
https://www.cryptsy.com/markets/view/DASH_LTC
https://bittrex.com/Market/Index?MarketName=BTC-DASH
http://altcoinlive.com/cryptsy-dash-ltc
interesting article on the rebranding here:
http://cointelegraph.com/news/113781/darkcoin-is-now-dash-and-not-a-moment-too-soon