Over the last month Monero has broken out over and held up at 0.003, while Darkcoin tested and failed to maintain 0.021.
Since you started this thread, XMR has more than tripled in value which DASH has fallen nearly 50%. This trend is likely to continue based on:
1. Larger and more active XMR development team
2. Faster growth of XMR usage and trading volume
3. Extremely strong and always improving XMR protocol level privacy (as a default) based on sound cryptography