When dealing with volatile assets like cryptocoins you can get more performance and even stability on comparing different coins with each other.
A good method for such improvements is MACD with adapted parameters: 52 / 9 / 12 instead of standard settings 26 / 12 / 9.
Right now BTC might rebound against ETH (see MACD here):
BTC/DASH is for trading in cycles (see MACD on top and BTC/DASH below):
