XMR is a project that has one of the most active githubs in cryptocurrency, and an amazing layer of privacy technogy. Monero is THE privacy coin, right behind ZEC (in my own opinion). Right now it looks like XMR is grinding along a long term trend line, if this broke down I would anticipate a very cheap XMR buying opportunity, but if this trend line proves to be true then this is not a bad long opportunity here. This chart is unlike most alts, so it is interesting to keep an eye on. The USD value also may drop more here, but BTC seems to be working on finding some support.
XMR > ZEC
(In my opinion, for reasons like private by default, more scaleable that ZEC as well)