You should NOT be trading anything other than baseball cards and cooking recipes with an account size of $20k.
Currently, no estimate is available. We will make a post back in this thread, when services are restored and stabilized. We will most certainly be undergoing a very thorough investigation of the cause of this issue along with what solutions need to be put into place to prevent a future attack of this type.
Esignal's website has a "system status" button for these types of occasions. Unfortunately, it's currently a dead link. They should just say "logon to Elite Trader for system status".