Dealer gamma — options dealers must buy/sell the underlying to stay hedged. Net $gamma per strike measures how much, and where.
Long gamma (positive) — dealers buy dips / sell rips → they CALM the market; price gets pinned toward big-gamma strikes.
Short gamma (negative) — dealers sell dips / buy rips → they AMPLIFY moves; price runs toward the dominant strike.
Magnet — the strike with the most gamma near spot for an expiry; the price hedging pulls toward. Above spot = ↑ pull, below = ↓ pull.
By expiry — the 0DTE expiry governs the next hours, the ~1-week expiry the next week, so each horizon reads its matching date.